[AURORA 2003: Intensive care nursing discharge report manager]

Since December 2003, the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of the Hospital General Universitario of Alicante has a new nursing discharge report and the Aurora 2003 program to be filled out and filed.

Evaluate the Aurora 2003 program and determine the degree of its use, in addition of evaluate user satisfaction with this program.

Having initiated the program, anonymous surveys were given to the nurses of the ICU. The percentage of reports filled out with the program, the professionals who had become to fill out the report by computer instead of in writing and their satisfaction with the program were obtained.

A nursing discharge report was issued for 563 (85%) of the patients who were discharged: 473 (84%) with the Aurora 2003 program and 92 (16%) manually. A total of 43 nurses (86%) used the program, 30 (71%) felt it was easy to use and 22 (52%) felt that is did not add any greater workload. The new report is better according to 35 (73%) professionals.

1) The Aurora 2003 program is used by most of the nurses of the ICU of the Hospital General Universitario of Alicante. They classify it as easy or very easy to learn and use. 2) The Aurora 2003 is a good tool for the management of nursing discharge reports.