N C S C International Journal of Computer Networks and Communications Security VOL. 2, NO. 6, JUNE 2014, 188–196 Available online at: www.ijcncs.org ISSN 2308-9830 Wireless Networks in Hospitals; a Framework of Use and Implementation for Nursing Care Reza Safdari 1 and Zahra Azadmanjir 2 1, 2 Department of Health Information Management, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran E-mail: 1 rsafdari@tums.ac.ir, 2 azadm@razi.tums.ac.ir ABSTRACT The purpose of current study is presenting a framework for implementation of wireless networks in hospitals to use in nursing care. In the proposed framework, implementation key aspects that include the purpose, application domains, and the functions of wireless terminals, network technology, mobile devices, user interface and the information structure of the system have described in the logical framework. Because, the framework has presented based on scientific principles and the experiences of other countries, it can be an appropriate framework for future efforts in this field. Keywords: Wireless Network, Hospital, Mobile Devices. 1 INTRODUCTION Wireless technologies-based systems particularly mobile or handheld devices with clinical applications have a great potential to meet communication needs for medical and nursing staff in the today hospitals and the future electronic hospitals. These can be used by nurses in order to complete data communicating and processing duties in a faster and better way [1,4]. In some of countries such as Finland, Germany, Canada, Brazil, South Korea and Taiwan, mobile devices used by nursing staff as wireless terminals or input-output part of large-scale information systems, for instance hospital information system, clinical information system (CIS) or nursing information system [5,11] . Several studies conducted on the benefits of using from wireless or mobile terminals in nursing practice. These benefits are including following cases: (1) real-time electronic documentation and charting of patient care data (e.g. vital signs, assessments, observations, and body hydroelectric balance) in the bedside.[9-12] (2) timely retrieving of archived clinical data related to patients (e.g. health history, care plans, nursing notes, lab results) from central database.[9] [5] controlling of medicine administration based on physician orders for each of patients and completing of the medicine administration record in real-time that will be accountable for the decries of medication errors related to nursing performance.[12-16] (4) decision support for nurses by mobile devices equipped to drug or medical reference applications and capabilities of alerting for drug interactions.[17] (5)clinical data exchanging in every time and setting.[4, 9, 18] (6) enhancing productivity of nursing staff [2, 19]. Several projects can performed in around the world for develop and implement mobile-based applications that used by nurses but accomplishment of these in form of fully integrated in the hospitals is more complex than which are stand along. Nevertheless, there are different aspects in the process of development and implementation of wireless terminals in care practice which affecting on outcomes of that. For this reason, we studied different aspects through rational framework and examined the aspects in real examples available in some of countries for presenting of a framework for implementation. 2 METHODS This research conducted in descriptive- comparative method. Information gathered from several sources. First, review of literature about wireless or mobile technology in nursing care by search in paper resources and electronic databases such as Pub Med, EBSCO and Ovid and so on.