Nursing information management and processing: a framework and definition for systems analysis, design and evaluation.

This paper discusses a new framework and definition for the development of nursing information systems. Graves and Corcoran presented a framework for nursing informatics and defined the science. In this article their framework is expanded to include nursing practice as domain of study and to better integrate the fact that nursing informatics finds its foundation in both the nursing and the informatics disciplines. The expansion is based on both the review of definitions of medical and nursing informatics and of models and descriptions from the informatics discipline. For research purposes, the domain of nursing informatics is defined, and methods for conducting investigations in the area of analysis, modeling and development of nursing information systems are described.