The times they are a changing: effects of online nursing documentation systems.

Safe patient care is at the front line when delivering patient care. Point-of-care online nursing documentation is presented as a possible solution. With the implementation of online nursing documentation, questions arise if this technology will improve the quality of nursing documentation as well as end user satisfaction. Five research articles are critiqued and it is concluded that overall online nursing documentation systems would be beneficial in improving documentation requirements and end user satisfaction and help influence how nursing is practiced.