Advantages of Computerized Record-keeping
- Less manpower is required for upkeep.
- Recording, storing, and retrieving are all much faster: easier and with little practice (Just a click of button is required).
- Requires far less space and print-outs can be made when needed.
- Records are more complete and less prone to human error.
- Photographs and other visuals can be easily incorporated into the record.
- Indoor patients can be monitored with a checklist of various parameters, and charts can be readily compiled, recorded and retrieved for nursing.
- Comprehensive records can be organized into a database that highlights trends in methods of nursing care, allowing for introspection and improvement in nursing practice.
- The thoroughness and organization lends more accurate nursing action research that is easier to carry out.
- Electronic records, with the aid of a modem and Internet connection, immensely facilitate sharing nursing care data with the nursing community.