Computer applications in the welfare management of a home care
Manuel Rodríguez Palma, Jesús Manuel Vallejo Sánchez

SUMMARY

Introduction and aim: The development of computer tools increasingly powerful for the effective and rapid management of the sanitary information , it has promoted the interest of the professionals of nursing to know the design and managing of these computer applications. To elaborate a base of information on our residents that it allows us to improve the management and record of the clinical information.

Method: Bibliographical review on computer systems of management, development of elaboration´s criteria of the base of information, introduction of information of the residents, validation of the program and valuation of efficiency.

Results: We present a computer program for the management of the sanitary records of our residents of our center. It is distributed in 5 basic files that share a common element (personal and sanitary information of the resident) and another specific that changes according to the file. These are: Management of medicaments in Primary care of Health (APS); Leaf (Sheet) of treatment; Leaf (Sheet) of urgency (clinical summary); Management of appointments to specialists and Effects of nursing. Stands out his facility of use, the rapid access to the information, the elaboration of documents and the creation of new reports thanks to the interrelationship of the different fields.

Conclusions: The base use of information to improve bureaucratic steps and to manage sanitary information, is a useful, valid and even indispensable tool in the welfare field that allows to store great quantity of information in little space, with great aptitude to classify, to emit reports and before constructed documents.

KEY WORDS

   Systems of information, computer science for nursing, computerization of the cares, computer applications in geriatrics..

Vol. 20 nº2-2009