Using clinical data to capture nurse workload: Implications for staffing and safety

CIN - Computers Informatics Nursing

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 229-234

  Baernholdt, Marianne ^a,b   Cox, Kathleen ^a   Scully, Ken ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Admission transfer and discharge; Hospital clinical data repositories; Unit activity index; Workload

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; FACTUAL DATABASE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL BED UTILIZATION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INFORMATION SYSTEM; METHODOLOGY; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; NURSING ADMINISTRATION RESEARCH; NURSING STAFF; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PATIENT TRANSPORT; SAFETY; SEASON; STATISTICS; TASK PERFORMANCE; UNITED STATES; UTILIZATION REVIEW; WORKLOAD; PROCEDURES; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; SUPPLY AND DISTRIBUTION; UTILIZATION;

BED OCCUPANCY; DATA COLLECTION; DATABASES, FACTUAL; HOSPITAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS; HUMANS; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; NURSING ADMINISTRATION RESEARCH; NURSING STAFF, HOSPITAL; PATIENT ADMISSION; PATIENT DISCHARGE; PATIENT TRANSFER; PERSONNEL STAFFING AND SCHEDULING INFORMATION SYSTEMS; SAFETY MANAGEMENT; SEASONS; SOUTHEASTERN UNITED STATES; TIME AND MOTION STUDIES; WORKLOAD;

EID: 77954061471     PISSN: 15382931     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/NCN.0b013e3181e1e57d     Document Type: Article

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