NURSES' PERCEPTION REGARDING THE IMPLEMENTATION OF COMPUTER-BASED CLINICAL NURSING DOCUMENTATION

This qualitative, exploratory, descriptive study was performed with the objective of understanding the perception of the nurses working in medical-surgical units of a university hospital, regarding the strategies developed to perform a pilot test of the PROCEnf-USP electronic system, with the purpose of computerizing clinical nursing documentation. Eleven nurses of a theoretical-practical training program were interviewed and the obtained data were analyzed using the Content Analysis Technique. The following categories were discussed based on the references of participative management and planned changes: favorable aspects for the implementation; unfavorable aspects for the implementation; and expectations regarding the implementation. According to the nurses' perceptions, the preliminary use of the electronic system allowed them to show their potential and to propose improvements, encouraging them to become partners of the group manager in the dissemination to other nurses of the institution.

Percepção de enfermeiros em relação à implementação da informatização da documentação clínica de enfermagem

Este estudo qualitativo e exploratório-descritivo busca compreender a percepção de enfermeiras de unidades clínico-cirúrgicas de um hospital universitário referente às estratégias desenvolvidas para o teste piloto do sistema eletrônico PROCEnf-USP, visando à informatização da documentação clínica de enfermagem. Onze enfermeiras participantes de um programa de capacitação teórico-prático foram entrevistadas e os dados obtidos foram analisados por meio da Técnica de Análise de Conteúdo. As categorias aspectos favoráveis à implementação; aspectos desfavoráveis à implementação e expectativas na implementação foram discutidas na perspectiva dos referenciais da administração participativa e da mudança planejada. Com base na percepção das enfermeiras, o uso preliminar do sistema eletrônico lhes possibilitou evidenciar suas potencialidades e propor melhorias, o que as incentivou a tornarem-se parceiras do grupo gestor na divulgação junto aos demais enfermeiros da instituição.

Intelligence systems methodology: a systemic approach to the organizational intelligence function

Organizational intelligence can be seen as a function of the viable structure of an organization. With the integration of the Viable System Model and Soft Systems Methodology (systemic approaches of organizational management) focused on the role of the intelligence function, it is possible to elaborate a model of action with a structured methodology to prospect, select, treat and distribute information to the entire organization that improves the efficacy and efficiency of all processes. This combination of methodologies is called Intelligence Systems Methodology (ISM) whose assumptions and dynamics are delimited in this paper. The ISM is composed of two simultaneous activities: the Active Environmental Mapping and the Stimulated Action Cycle. The elaboration of the formal ISM description opens opportunities for applications of the methodology on real situations, offering a new path for this specific issue of systems thinking: the intelligence systems. Knowledge Management Research & Practice (2012) 10, 141-152. doi:10.1057/kmrp.2011.44