Barra Daniela Couto Carvalho, Sasso Grace Teresinha Marcon Dal, Almeida Sônia Regina Wagner de
Department of Nursing, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, SC, Brazil.
Department of Nursing and Post-graduate program in Nursing, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, SC, Brazil.
Rev Esc Enferm USP. 2015 Apr;49(2):326-34. doi: 10.1590/S0080-623420150000200019.
To analyze the usability of Computerized Nursing Process (CNP) from the ICNP(®) 1.0 in Intensive Care Units in accordance with the criteria established by the standards of the International Organization for Standardization and the Brazilian Association of Technical Standards of systems.
This is a before-and-after semi-experimental quantitative study, with a sample of 34 participants (nurses, professors and systems programmers), carried out in three Intensive Care Units.
The evaluated criteria (use, content and interface) showed that CNP has usability criteria, as it integrates a logical data structure, clinical assessment, diagnostics and nursing interventions.
The CNP is a source of information and knowledge that provide nurses with new ways of learning in intensive care, for it is a place that provides complete, comprehensive, and detailed content, supported by current and relevant data and scientific research information for Nursing practices.