TY - JOUR
T1 - Using the omaha system to describe health problems, interventions, and outcomes in home care in Istanbul, Turkey
T2 - A student informatics research experience
AU - Erdogan, Semra
AU - Secginli, Selda
AU - Cosansu, Gülhan
AU - Nahcivan, Nursen O.
AU - Esin, M. Nihal
AU - Aktas, Emine
AU - Monsen, Karen A.
PY - 2013/6/1
Y1 - 2013/6/1
N2 - Preparing nursing students to achieve informatics competencies is essential in today's information-intensive healthcare delivery systems. This study aimed to provide hands-on informatics experience to nursing students and to identify the frequency and type of home care clients' health problems, nursing interventions, and outcomes using a standardized nursing terminology, the Omaha System. Data were collected by 159 nursing students on home visits to 598 clients, who received 8657 interventions from students and faculty for 2267 problems, in addition to the services provided by the home care centers. Skin, neuromusculoskelatal function, personal care, nutrition, and urinary function were the most common problems. The most common intervention category was teaching, guidance, and counseling (47%), followed by treatments and procedures (22%), surveillance (22%), and case management (9%). Outcomes evaluation showed significant improvement in 97.5% of the identified problems. Students gained informatics experience in the use of a standardized nursing language in electronic health records, data management, and use of nursing data at the basic practice level. This study demonstrated that the Omaha System was a useful data collection tool for evaluating problems, interventions, and outcomes in home care and a positive teaching and learning tool for baccalaureate nursing education.
AB - Preparing nursing students to achieve informatics competencies is essential in today's information-intensive healthcare delivery systems. This study aimed to provide hands-on informatics experience to nursing students and to identify the frequency and type of home care clients' health problems, nursing interventions, and outcomes using a standardized nursing terminology, the Omaha System. Data were collected by 159 nursing students on home visits to 598 clients, who received 8657 interventions from students and faculty for 2267 problems, in addition to the services provided by the home care centers. Skin, neuromusculoskelatal function, personal care, nutrition, and urinary function were the most common problems. The most common intervention category was teaching, guidance, and counseling (47%), followed by treatments and procedures (22%), surveillance (22%), and case management (9%). Outcomes evaluation showed significant improvement in 97.5% of the identified problems. Students gained informatics experience in the use of a standardized nursing language in electronic health records, data management, and use of nursing data at the basic practice level. This study demonstrated that the Omaha System was a useful data collection tool for evaluating problems, interventions, and outcomes in home care and a positive teaching and learning tool for baccalaureate nursing education.
KW - Home care
KW - Informatics
KW - Omaha System
KW - Outcomes
KW - Turkey
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U2 - 10.1097/NXN.0b013e318282eala
DO - 10.1097/NXN.0b013e318282eala
M3 - Article
C2 - 23438865
AN - SCOPUS:84880078647
VL - 31
SP - 290
EP - 298
JO - CIN - Computers Informatics Nursing
JF - CIN - Computers Informatics Nursing
SN - 1538-2931
IS - 6
ER -