| [ Summary ] |
Information disclosure is the current trend in medicine. It is useful to disclose information compiled in a consultation book to the patient and the family. This information is also useful in improving the quality of medical treatment. As for dialysis treatment, information dissemination is necessity from the outset, because dialysis is a form of treatment in which the patient's and the family's under standing and cooperation are both necessary. The use of computerization for charts progressing at this time. This has the potential to bring the qualitative changes in nursing. It will be possible to use a table that shows patient's problems quickly by inputting information in to the computer, also. However, these are only some of the nursing functions concerning records and arrangement of information. The purpose of computerization is to contribute to the considerations which have always been at the core of nursing practice. |