Measuring Capacity to Care Using Nursing Data

  • 11h 15m
  • Cherrie Lowe RN RM Dip Teaching, Evelyn Hovenga, PG Dip Hospital Admin AFACHM MACN
  • Elsevier Science and Technology Books, Inc.
  • 2021

Measuring Capacity to Care Using Nursing Data presents evidence-based solutions regarding the adoption of safe staffing principles and the optimum use of operational data to enable health service delivery strategies that result in improved patient and organizational outcomes. Readers 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. 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.

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.

In this Book

  • Dynamic Health Care Environments
  • Health Care Operational Inefficiencies—Costly Events
  • Digital Transformation Needs to Measure Nursing and Midwifery Care Demands and Workloads
  • Nursing and Midwifery Work Measurement Methods and Use
  • Identifying Skill Mix Needs
  • Nursing and Organizational Models of Care
  • Staffing Resource Allocation, Budgets and Management
  • Workforce Planning
  • Digital Health Ecosystems—Use of Informatics, Connectivity and System Interoperability
  • A Digital Transformation Strategy Enabling Nursing Data Use
  • Measuring Health Service Quality
  • Residential and Community Care Management
  • Current and Future Vision
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