In direct proportion: ratios, IT, and trust.
The growing nursing shortage demands that hospitals employ both mandated patient-staff ratios and increased reliance on IT.
Humans↗
Biomedical subjects
Roy L Simpson
Publications and source records attributed to Roy L Simpson.
Error reporting as a preventive force.
IT advances make error reporting an instructive tool for improving patient safety. In the absence of national legislation and a national database, many states are breaking new ground in the patient safety movement, bolstered by the collection, interpretation, and dissemination of meaningful data.
Attitude to Health↗
Managing the three 'P's to improve patient safety: nursing administration's role in managing information technology.
The Institute of Medicine's landmark report asserted that medical error is seldom the fault of individuals, but the result of faulty healthcare policy/procedure systems. Numerous studies have shown that information technology (IT) can shore up weak systems. For nursing, IT plays a key role in eliminating nursing mistakes. However, managing IT is a function of managing the people who use it. For nursing administrators, successful IT implementations depend on adroit management of the three 'P's: People, processes and (computer) programs. This paper examines critical issues for managing each entity. It discusses the importance of developing trusting organizations, the requirements of process change, how to implement technology in harmony with the organization and the significance of vision.
Humans↗
Technology and the IOM: making the work environment safer.
Learn how technology can play a role in helping health care respond to the issues highlighted in the most recent Institute of Medicine report.
Humans↗
Who's minding our profession? Assessing the quality of nursing performance, part 1.
Part 1 of this two-part series examines a newly endorsed set of evidence-based measures aimed specifically at assessing nursing performance.
Evidence-Based Medicine↗
Who's minding our profession? Assessing the quality of nursing performance, part 2.
IT plays a role in measuring performance quality, which is critical to nursing both in terms of fulfilling its caring mission and as a way to document the profession's contribution to positive outcomes.
Data Collection↗
Measuring change: how technology increases nursing's diversity.
As the population becomes more diverse, health care must take steps to ensure all cultural and ethnic groups are well-served according to their unique needs.
Communications Media↗
Evidence-based nursing offers certainty in the uncertain world of healthcare.
This article defines evidence-based nursing, explores its history, provides a broad overview of where it is today, and predicts its future.
Diffusion of Innovation↗
Where will we be in 2015?
Preview the technologies that promise to shape healthcare over the next 10 years and learn nursing's role in their development.
Humans↗
IT takes a village to tackle health care's biggest challenges.
Examine how initiatives from a host of health care constituencies use information technology to address two of health care's most daunting challenges--the nursing shortage and patient safety.
Industry↗
Back to basics with IT and patient-centered care.
Some believe technology will make nurses obsolete. But numerous types of technology-primarily information systems-actually help nurses further the cause of patient-centered care.
Humans↗
What's in a name? The taxonomy and nomenclature puzzle, part 1.
Nursing needs a unified, ubiquitous language with which to describe its unique contributions to the health care process. The first step to creating this language is to understand the terms.
Classification↗
What's in a name? The taxonomy and nomenclature puzzle, part 2.
Learn the elements that make standardizing nursing nomenclatures and taxonomies a difficult task.
Abstracting and Indexing↗
Today's challenges shape tomorrow's technology, Part 1.
ring's viability and progress, leaders must use the challenges facing the profession and the health care industry as a blueprint for a future technological vision.
Biomedical Technology↗
Today's challenges shape tomorrow's technology, part 2.
In part 2 of this series, examine technologies critical to nursing's viability, now and in the near future.
Computer Security↗
Issues in telemedicine: why is policy still light-years behind technology?
Telemedicine may make it possible for nurses to practice across state lines, but it also raises critical policy issues, primarily surrounding licensure across those lines. From professional nursing associations to unions, state regulatory boards, and Congress itself, the topic of multistate licensure policy is being hotly debated by a host of concerned parties. One key question they're all asking is: "How?".
Cooperative Behavior↗
Healing health care, healing nursing in the 21st century.
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Education, Nursing↗
Winning the "blame game".
Promoting trust within an organization involves doing away with the culture of blame that surrounds medical errors. When nurses feel safe to report errors and near misses, nurse leaders can identify weak areas and strengthen systems.
Attitude of Health Personnel↗