Perioperative Electronic System - A New Approach for Perioperative Nursing Performance

摘要

Nowadays, IT and informatics are permanently and highly integrated into the delivery of quality health care and in the perioperative care is no exception. At Dr. Nelio Mendonca Hospital the implementation of a perioperative electronic system was a major step. The purpose of this study was to contribute to the perioperative nursing care improvement by recreating innovated nursing practices through the conception and implementation of a perioperative electronic system. Before the perioperative electronic system implementation in the OR only 1,2% of the nurses registered the preoperative visit and after its implementation 87,6% of the nurses registered it. The patient features assessed exhibited inferior anxiety levels (1st group: 13,72/2nd group: 10,97) and lower pain levels in the preoperative stage (1st group: 2,66/2nd group: 1,19), intraoperative stage (1st group: 2,05/2nd group: 0,72) and postoperative stage (1st group: 4,5/2nd group: 0,45) after the implementation of the perioperative electronic system (p-value <0,05). The results indicate that this system was beneficial to the nurses and to the surgery patients.