2004 Volume 24 Issue 1 Pages 99-109
Nurses looking after inpatients cannot take enough time for caring or managing patients because they have other time-consuming works, namely, keeping records of patients, establishing contact with doctors or nurses and so on. They usually memorize information about patients beside sickbed and write this information down on chart in nurse station. And so, paper based nursing record may trigger recording mistakes because the record depends on the memories of nurses. To address this issue, we have developed an electronic treatment planning system on bed-site. This is a specialized system for pressure ulcer using Personal Digital Assistant (PDA). Our system enables nurses to record, retrieve and change the patients’ record on bed-site directly over wireless LAN. In this paper, we describe how to design and implement the planning system, in particular how to design user interface and validity of PDA.
