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Adult nursing
Digital health systems may not fully incorporate the nursing process thus posing a risk to effective clinical decision-making
  1. Veronika Williams,
  2. Laurie Peachey
  1. School of Nursing, Nipissing University, North Bay, Ontario, Canada
  1. Correspondence to Dr Veronika Williams, School of Nursing, Nipissing University, North Bay, Ontario, Canada; veronika.williams{at}nipissingu.ca

https://doi.org/10.1136/ebnurs-2023-103836

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    Commentary on: Hants L, Bail K, Paterson C. Clinical decision-making and the nursing process in digital health systems: An integrated systematic review. J Clin Nurs. 2023 Oct;32(19-20):7010–7035. doi: 10.1111/jocn.16823. Epub 2023 Jul 24.

    Implications for practice and research

    • Healthcare settings need to consider how to support the complete nursing process when designing and implementing digital health systems to ensure nurses can make clinical decisions more effectively.

    • We need better quality research to understand how digital health systems can effectively incorporate the nursing process comprehensively.

    Context

    Digital health systems are now widely used in healthcare to facilitate communication, collect more complete patient information in electronic form and improve access to documentation.1 Digital health systems are designed to be used by the multidisciplinary health team with nurses being one of the key professionals interacting with digital patient data.2 Yet, it …

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    Footnotes

    • Funding The authors have not declared a specific grant for this research from any funding agency in the public, commercial or not-for-profit sectors.

    • Competing interests None declared.

    • Provenance and peer review Commissioned; internally peer reviewed.