Abstract: Objective: To construct an intelligent nursing scheduling system that meets the nursing management needs of the operating room for clinical use to improve the work efficiency, safety and quality of the operating room. Methods: The intelligent nursing scheduling system was constructed in September 2023 in the operating room of a tertiary grade A hospital. And then three operating rooms were randomly selected to compare various indicators including the operating room average utilization rate, average surgical turnaround time, and average patients' preoperative waiting time, as well as average waiting time for medical staffs, users' evaluation of system usability, and satisfaction of patients before (from June to July, 2023) and after (from November to December, 2023) the system was applied. Results: After the application of the system, the average usage efficiency of the operating room was significantly improved (P=0.013), with significantly shortened average turnover time (P=0.007), waiting time before patients entering the room (P<0.001) and average waiting time for medical staffs (P=0.014). The average score of each dimension of the Post-Study System Usability Questionnaire among 37 staff members was between 5.98 (satisfied) and 6.08 (quite satisfied). Patients' satisfaction survey showed that patients' evaluation of the overall service in the operating room was significantly improved (P<0.001). Conclusion: The construction and application of the intelligent nursing scheduling system in operating room optimizes and standardizes the behavior of nursing assistants, effectively improves the efficiency of surgical turnover and patients' satisfaction, ensures medical safety, promotes high-quality development of the hospital, and shows its promotion value.

Key words: informatization; intelligent nursing scheduling system; surgical turnover; benefit; nursing quality