Measuring Capacity To Care Using Nursing Data presents evidence based solutions regarding the adoption of safe staffing principles and optimum use of operational data to enable health service delivery strategies, resulting in improved patient and organisational outcomes. By reading it, the reader will learn how to make better use of informatics to collect, share, link and process data collected operationally for the purpose of providing real time information to decision makers at every level of the organization, in order to enable collaboration and optimum use of available human and other resources to meet health service demands at any point in time. The book discusses topics such as dynamic health care environments, health care operational inefficiencies and costly events, how to measure nursing care demand, nursing models of care, data quality and governance, and big data. Additionally, it encompasses a discussion on current and future perspectives for nursing informatics and health information systems. The content of the book is a valuable source for graduate students in informatics, nurses, nursing managers, and several members involved in health care who are interested in learning more about the beneficial use of informatics for improving their services Presents and discusses evidences from real world case studies from multiple countriesProvides detailed insights of health system complexity in order to improve decision makingDemonstrates the link between nursing data and its use for efficient and effective healthcare service managementDiscusses several limitations currently experienced and their impact on health service delivery, and presents alternatives regarding health system transformation needs INDICE: 1. Dynamic Health Care Environments 2. Health Care Operational Inefficiencies and Costly Events 3. Measuring Nursing Care Demand 4. Work Measurement Methods 5. Identifying Skill Mix Needs 6. Nursing Models of Care 7. Re-Engineering Rostering patterns 8. Calculating Staff EFT Service Requirements 9. Use of informatics - system interoperability 10. Data Quality and Governance 11. System Evaluation 12. Capturing and Using the Data Operationally 13. Measuring Health Service Quality 14. Workforce planning 15. Big Data 16. Change Management 17. Current and Future Vision
- ISBN: 978-0-12-816977-3
- Editorial: Academic Press
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 500
- Fecha Publicación: 01/02/2020
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés