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10 ways to practice evidence-based staffing and scheduling.

Nurs Manage. 2011 Oct;42(10):20-4

Authors: Reese SM

PMID: 21952014 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

Hitech education in community college for workforce training.

Comput Inform Nurs. 2011 Sep;29(9):484-8

Authors: Brokel JM, McLaughlin M

PMID: 21979871 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

Maintaining patient safety through innovation: an electronic SBAR communication tool.

Comput Inform Nurs. 2011 Sep;29(9):481-3

Authors: Bello J, Quinn P, Horrell L

PMID: 21979870 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

HIMSS position statement on transforming nursing practice through technology & informatics: (approved by the HIMSS Board of Directors June 17, 2011).

Crit Care Nurs Q. 2011 Oct-Dec;34(4):367-76

Authors:

PMID: 21921720 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

Are you prepared for the digital era?

Neonatal Netw. 2011 Jul-Aug;30(4):263-6

Authors: Cheeseman SE

PMID: 21729859 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

Clinical intelligence.

J Nurs Adm. 2011 Dec;41(12):507-9

Authors: Harrington L

Abstract
Clinical intelligence is an emerging field in healthcare that will change nursing practice, driving clinical outcomes and operational efficiencies. Clinical intelligence is essential to healthcare organizations in fully realizing the value of the growing amount of data being generated through electronic health records and other clinical information systems. This article discusses the asset of clinical data, the multiple roles of nurses in maximizing the value of this asset, and a vision for nursing's future in regards to clinical intelligence.

PMID: 22094613 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

Streamlining patient review: Morehead Memorial expands care-management program, ensuring appropriate patient care.

Health Manag Technol. 2011 Nov;32(11):23

Authors:

PMID: 22145172 [PubMed - in process]

The importance of INSs: informatics nurse specialists bridge patients, IT and executives.

Health Manag Technol. 2011 Nov;32(11):10

Authors: Hunter K, McGonigle D, Hebda T

PMID: 22141240 [PubMed - in process]

Piloting a logic-based framework for understanding organisational change process for a health IT implementation.

Stud Health Technol Inform. 2011;168:44-50

Authors: Diment K, Garrety K, Yu P

Abstract
This paper describes how a method for evaluating organisational change based on the theory of logical types can be used for classifying organisational change processes to understand change after the implementation of an electronic documentation system in a residential aged care facility. In this instance we assess the organisational change reflected by care staff's perceptions of the benefits of the new documentation system at one site, at pre-implementation, and at 12 months post-implementation. The results show how a coherent view from the staff as a whole of the personal benefits, the benefits for others and the benefits for the organization create a situation of positive feedback leading to embeddedness of the documentation system into the site, and a broader appreciation of the potential capabilities of the electronic documentation system.

PMID: 21893910 [PubMed - in process]

Informatics and the learning healthcare system.

Nurs Educ Perspect. 2011 Sep-Oct;32(5):334-6

Authors: Skiba DJ

PMID: 22029247 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

Health information technology for the perinatal setting.

Nurs Womens Health. 2011 Aug-Sep;15(4):346-8

Authors:

PMID: 21884503 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

Development and testing of a survey instrument to measure benefits of a nursing information system.

Perspect Health Inf Manag. 2011;8:1c

Authors: Abdrbo AA, Zauszniewski JA, Hudak CA, Anthony MK

Abstract
Information systems (IS) benefits for nurses are outcomes related to the tangible products or improvements that nurses realize from using IS. This study examined the development and psychometric testing of a measure of nurses' benefits from IS. A random sample of 570 nurses working in hospitals, providing direct patient care, and using IS completed the study questionnaire. The internal consistency reliability of the results was .97. Exploratory factor analysis, using principal components extraction and varimax rotation, revealed items loaded on four factors (saving time and efficiency, quality of care, charting, and professional practice) that were confirmed by confirmatory factor analysis. Continued refinement of the instrument is needed with more diverse samples of nurses.

PMID: 21796265 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

Integrating informatics competencies into practice.

MCN Am J Matern Child Nurs. 2011 Jul-Aug;36(4):267

Authors: McCartney PR

PMID: 21709526 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

Clinical information systems: cornerstone for an efficient hospital management.

Stud Health Technol Inform. 2011;169:992-5

Authors: Lovis C

Abstract
The university hospitals of Geneva are the largest consortium of public hospitals in Switzerland. This organization is born in 1995, after a political decision to merge the seven public and teaching hospitals of the Canton of Geneva. From an information technologies perspective, it took several years to reach a true unified vision of the complete organization. The clinical information system is deployed in all sites covering in- and outpatient cares. It is seen as the cornerstone of information management and flow in the organization, for direct patient care and decision support, but also for the management to drive, improve and leverage the activities, for better efficiency, quality and safety of care, but also to drive processes. As the system has become more important for the organization, it has required progressive changes in its governance. The high importance of interoperability and use of formal representation has become a major challenge in order to be able to reuse clinical information for real-time care and management activities, and for secondary usage such as billing, resource management, strategic planning and clinical research. This paper proposes a short overview of the tools allowing to leverage the management for physicians, nurses, human resources and hospital governance.

PMID: 21893895 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

Research management: the case of RN4CAST.

Stud Health Technol Inform. 2011;169:985-8

Authors: Zikos D, Mantas J

Abstract
Successful research management requires multifunctional, equal teamwork and efficient coordination, aiming to increase the impact of the research outcomes. Aim of this paper is to present the strategies that have been followed to successfully manage the RN4CAST study, one of the largest multi country research projects ever conducted. The paper focuses on the core research strategies rather than on the administrative management activities also required for the success of this case report. Management of a multi-country nursing survey requires the use of common data collection tools, applicable to every context, research protocols supporting the scope of the research, data models for multi-country analyses and global dissemination strategies.

PMID: 21893893 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

Contextual inquiry method for user-centred clinical IT system design.

Stud Health Technol Inform. 2011;169:965-9

Authors: Viitanen J

Abstract
Little can be found in the literature about the applicability of field study methods, particularly contextual inquiry, in the health informatics field. This paper aims to inform and promote the use of contextual inquiry for user-oriented design of clinical information technology (IT) systems. The paper describes how the method was applied in two empirical studies to gather data about end-users' needs, as well as the use and usability of dictation solutions and electronic nursing documentation systems from the viewpoint of their end-users' in real working surroundings. Experience indicates that, compared to typical usability evaluation methods, contextual inquiry may provide valuable support for user-centred design activities: the method is suitable for increasing researchers' understanding of clinical practices, contexts of work, and end-users' interaction with numerous IT systems. However, in clinical settings there are special challenges related to recording and privacy issues, a wide variety of clinical practices and contexts of technology usage, as well as the hectic nature of clinical work.

PMID: 21893889 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

A training model for orienting newly hired nurses to an organization's electronic health record.

Comput Inform Nurs. 2011 Jun;29(6):321-5

Authors: Stromberg SC

PMID: 21694526 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

Staying connected.

Orthop Nurs. 2011 Jul-Aug;30(4):223-4

Authors: Satusky MJ

PMID: 21799374 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

Are you computing in the clouds? Understanding cloud computing.

Nurs Educ Perspect. 2011 Jul-Aug;32(4):266-8

Authors: Skiba DJ

PMID: 21923009 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

[Computerized system for managing nursing care indicators at Hospital São Paulo].

Rev Esc Enferm USP. 2011 Aug;45(4):1013-7

Authors: Labbadia LL, D'Innocenzo M, Fogliano RR, Silva GE, de Queiroz RM, Carmagnani MI, Salvador ME

Abstract
Indicators are tools that permit to define parameters that will be used to make comparisons between a result and its expected value, as well as to add a value of judgement in this regard. The purpose of this study is to describe the experience of a group of nurses in the development of a computerized system to manage nursing care indicators at Hospital São Paulo. Four stages were used to implement the indicator management system: developing a nursing care indicator handbook; performing a manually registered pilot test; developing the computerized system; and performing the pilot test of the computerized system in eleven units at the hospital.

PMID: 21876907 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]