Objective : The hospital’ s nursing department currently has 136 standard operating procedures (SOPs) stored in its information management system. Therefore, to find required SOPs in the system, nurses have to open 11 tabs for web pages. Moreover, the categorization of technical standards into 19 subgroups causes even more difficulty in accessing required SOPs. Thus, to effectively improve the quality of clinical care, simplifying the search process and shortening the time required for searching desired SOPs are necessary.
Methods : The mind mapping concept was used to categorize technical standards based on the location of organs in the human anatomy. Furthermore, nursing care and procedural standards were categorized according to the timeline from outpatient service, admission, to discharge, coupled with the hyperlink function to simplify the search process.
Results : Through convenience sampling, we recruited 30 clinical nurses who performed the actual operation of the new system. The results showed that the search time significantly decreased from 68.3% to 58%, and the satisfaction rate of nurses with the new system reached 98.67%.
Conclusions/Implications for practice : Using the mind mapping concept and hyperlink function, nurses could obtain desired SOPs faster, thereby improving clinical applicability and enhancing their work efficiency.