The impact of a decision-support-system on student?s ability to write nursing care plans.

Project summary

How does the decision-support-system Sanum BSS influent on student?s ability to write nursing care plans. Will the nursing care plans improve? The Sanum BSS is a decision-support-system for making nursing care plans. A decision-support-system is (?) consisting of a knowledge base and an inference engine that is able to use entered data to generate advice (van Bemmel & Musen 1997:568). One will start using the Sanum BSS in Institute of Nursing during spring of 2005. This is a decision-support-system that uses the NANDA (North American Nursing Diagnosis Association), NIC (Nursing Intervention Classification) and NOC (Nursing Outcome Classification) classification systems in supporting nurses making nursing care plans. One of the three first year classes (S05A) will learn how to use the Sanum BSS and will use this system in their work with nursing care plans throughout their two first years of studying. We want to assess how the use of the Sanum BSS influent on the students nursing care plans. Do the students using the decision-support-system make better nursing care plans than those who make these plans in the traditional way, using literature and their memory? The purpose of this study is to see how use of a decision-support-system influent on students ability to write nursing care plans. The aim is that students make better nursing care plans.