Hovenga / Lowe RN / Lowe Measuring Capacity to Care Using Nursing Data

1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-0-12-816978-0
Verlag: Elsevier Science & Techn.
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 498 Seiten

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.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

Evelyn Hovenga brings global experience, strong scientific and professional leadership in
Health and Nursing Informatics, she is widely published. Her experience and expertise covers
many factors of health and nursing informatics, especially standards development pertaining to
health terminology and electronic health records, including knowledge management, ontology
and semantic interoperability. Evelyn undertook all her graduate studies whilst working
full-time as a divorced mother of two daughters, and was awarded a doctorate in Health
Administration from the University of New South Wales.
Her healthcare industry background began as a Nurse in paediatrics, obstetrics, general medical
and surgical, organ imaging and ended as an operating room suite unit manager. This was
followed by a new appointment as a Health Service Management (Workstudy) Consultant for the
Victorian Government Health Commission, where her career progressed to her
taking on the role of senior nursing advisor and researcher for a Ministerial enquiry into nursing
in that State. Evelyn developed a nursing acuity system in response to a need to address major
nursing industrial unrest over workload, nursing career structures and pay. This acuity system
was in use by over 100 hospitals in three Australian States for close to fifteen years. It was
outlawed in Victoria by the then Minister of Health, as the information made available to nurses
was used by them to manage their workloads. He considered this to be in conflict with his new
policy to reduce surgical waiting lists. Evelyn then worked privately as a consultant and
undertook numerous additional patient acuity studies and nursing productivity reviews in
Victoria and other Australian States.
Evelyn met up with her co-author, Cherrie Lowe when undertaking major research for the
Private Hospitals Association in Victoria and Queensland, where Cherrie was a Director of
Nursing of a private hospital, when they recognised their shared vision and entrepreneurial
mindsets. The research project's aim was to establish a nursing career structure.
Evelyn accepted an invitation from the Director of Nursing of the London Hospital, Maureen
Scholes, who had established a Nursing Informatics working group for the International
Medical Informatics Association, to represent Australian nurses internationally as a member of
that working group. This provided her with an international network of other nursing informatics
researchers, with opportunities to collaborate with them. She was elected to Chair
this group following her successful hosting of the International Nursing Informatics conference
in Melbourne (NI'91). Profits made were used to establish the Health Informatics Society of
Australia, of which Evelyn is a founding and lifelong member. She is a founding Fellow and life
member of the Australasian College of Health Informatics, and the International Academy of
Health Sciences Informatics. She was awarded fellowships by the Australian College and
Nursing, the Australian Computer Society and the Australian College of Health Services Executives.
Evelyn again diverted from her career path by accepting a University appointment to develop
post graduate programs in health informatics and administration, and establish a research
centre. Evelyn became a founding member of a newly established Health Informatics Standards
Development Committee (IT/14) by Standards Australia. She has participated in many
standards development activities as a volunteer for Standards Australia, ISO TC215 and HL7
Australia, and continues to work with the openEHR foundation at the University College of
London. One of her Post Doctoral fellows, Dr Sebastian Garde established the first ontology
based online clinical knowledge repository under her guidance. Evelyn was an external advisor
for the EU funded NIGHTINGALE, TELENursing and ICNP development projects during the
1990s and has witnessed many new technical advances during her career. She retired as a full
professor in 2007 and is continuing her work in her current positions.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hovenga, Evelyn

Lowe RN, Rm

Lowe, Cherrie