This thesis presents a computerized nursing workload management system developed as part of the Patient Data Management System (PDMS) for the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit of the Montreal Children's Hospital. The objective of the Nursing Workload Management System (NWMS) is primarily to reduce the workload of nursing staff by automating the preparation of nursing care plans, generating schedules for the tasks in the plan of care, and providing an audit trail facility to annotate the care delivered to a patient. / The thesis begins with a literature review of contemporary computerized medical information systems followed by an overview of the PDMS. A description of the design and implementation of the Nursing Workload Management System of the PDMS is followed by evaluation and performance results of the system. The evaluation of the performance results is encouraging and further on site testing of the NWMS is recommended. Finally, an outline of future extensions for the system is included.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:QMM.27264 |
| Date | January 1997 |
| Creators | Zia, Vivian. |
| Contributors | Malowany, A. (advisor) |
| Publisher | McGill University |
| Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Coverage | Master of Engineering (Department of Electrical Engineering.) |
| Rights | All items in eScholarship@McGill are protected by copyright with all rights reserved unless otherwise indicated. |
| Relation | alephsysno: 001572747, proquestno: MQ29638, Theses scanned by UMI/ProQuest. |
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