[Support system for patient care planning and prescription for nursing care]

The use of information technology is reduced in health area. Its introduction as a management tool and decision support can change the actual kinds of planning within health organizations. The purpose of this work is to develop a system in order to enable and process the nursing prescription. The system named DSSPPNC-Decision Support System in Planning and Prescription of Nursing Care-is a computational tool that enables the information access under the form of Nursing Assistance Protocols. The results of the present work will involve sensible changes in the nursing assistential practice, with repercussion in the type of assistance management and to care the individual hospitalized, making opportune and approaching the nurse to the patient, through raising of problems, aiming care planning and accomplishment, results valuation and supervision and control of the staff engaged to in assistance.