ICT for nursing and medical safety management

Abstract

ICT for nurses has been developing to reduce not only their burden but also the risks for patients. Reducing their burden will make totally lower the risk because of their higher attention to the patients. This indirect effect was expected at introducing medical ICT system, which has maintained continuously sa well from the risk management. ICT may often supply some methods which draw the nurses' attention to the target risk, but the number of risks handled in the system will increase. Habituation to alerts on ICT can consequently increase the risks through randomly added alert signs on the display. We discuss the way for the optimization on the nursing risk management.