Nursing APHMÓVEL: mobile application to register the nursing process in prehospital emergency care

Abstract

Objectives: to develop an application for a mobile device for the registration of the Nursing Process by nurses of the Mobile Emergency Care Service. Methods: applied research with technology development based on software engineering and Apple’s Human Interface Guidelines. It had the support of an application developer and a designer. The proposal was built in four steps (scope definition, planning, prototype creation and development). Results: the application “Nursing APHMóvel” allows to record the steps of the Nursing Process, such as history, nursing diagnoses, outcomes and interventions with the possibility of storing the data and/or file in printable format. The technological innovation has location features, scales with automatic sum of items, touchscreen, and offline operation. Conclusions: it was possible to develop the application with the potential for computerized documentation of the Nursing Process by nurses working in the Mobile Emergency Care Service.