Development Eletronic Systems of Nursing Clinical Documentation structured by diagnosis, outcomes and interventions

Electronic nursing documentation constitutes technical, scientific, legal and ethical documents. This paper reports a study to develop an electronic nursing documentation system. The system was developed in four phases (conceptualizing, detailing, prototype building and implementation), and the knowledge base was based on domains and classes according to the NANDA-I, NIC, and NOC unified framework. The result was an electronic system (PROCEnf-USP - Nursing Process Electronic Documentation System of the University of Sao Paulo) for electronic nursing process documentation and reports, including a functionality to support decisions on nursing diagnosis, expected outcomes, and interventions. The factors of success of this technological project included integrating varied fields of knowledge, as also as the institutional feature of valuing the continuous theoretical and practical improvement of the nursing process.