Nurses' Knowledge, Attitude and Practices of Nursing Informatics System in Outpatient Clinics of Children's Cancer Hospital (57357) at Cairo

Abstract

Technology in health care is increasingly becoming an integral part of the Egypt. Health care delivery system and is declared by strategists as a means whereby sustained improvement in health-care outcomes may be attained. This study was carried out aiming to assess nurses` Knowledge, attitude and practice about the nursing informatics system at out -patient clinics of Children's Cancer Hospital (57357), at Cairo. A descriptive research design will be utilized in this study was carried out in this hospital during April 2013. Sample consists of nineteen male and female nurses who are working in out-patient clinics. This study was conducted at the different out-patient clinics at Children Cancer Hospital (57357) at Cairo. Two tools were utilized to collect data pertinent to the study; one of them is a socio demographic data sheet and the second tool is a structured interview questioner schedule developed by investigator. Findings of this study showed that the majority of the sample was females and more than half of them were single. In addition to, it was found that, more than half of them academic faculties. Also, there was highly statistical significant difference between total knowledge of nursing informatics system according to total practice and total attitude of nursing informatics system. This study concluded that nurses are responsible for a substantial part of the patient record and hence are particularly affected by the computerization. The appliance of information system into nursing provides important advantages of the nursing personnel’s data and contributing to the improvement of the operating effectiveness of the nursing service. Recommendation: In Egypt (2013), nursing informatics is a new specialty and therefore should cover major sectors of the healthcare system where nurses work; this includes the clinical, administrative, research and education areas.

Keywords: Knowledge, Attitude and practices nursing informatics, Nursing Informatics System, Hospital Information System.