Data for Nurses: Understanding and Using Data to Optimize Care Delivery in Hospitals and Health Systems

ISBN-13: 9780128165430 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 132 str.

Molly McNett

Recenzje

"This book is extremely relevant and provides useful tools for practice. By book design it is well outlined, providing a concise and thoughtful tool for understanding data utilization. It is well suited for nurses or other healthcare professions requiring basic understanding of the principles of data utilization in quality improvement, evidence-based practice, or mandatory indicators. The book should be in the tool kit of any nurse leader or educator to better delineate the complexities of data utilization, its role in nursing, and its significance to patient outcomes." --Doody

Spis treści

1. Why Data Matters2: Quality and Benchmarking Data in Health Systems

3: Research Data in Health Systems

4: Financial Data in Health Systems

5: Evaluating Data to Guide Care Delivery: Quality Improvement Methods and Implementation Science

6: Protecting the Data: Security and Privacy

7: Determining the Dissemination Plan: Internal and External Considerations

8: International Perspectives on Data

O autorze

Dr. McNett has spent the majority of her career working with nurses across health systems to critically evaluate data to inform best practices. She has led international guideline development groups in critically synthesizing the research literature to generate meaningful practice recommendations, and works with leadership teams in health systems to apply findings to practice and create infrastructures for ongoing monitoring of outcomes. She has served on a variety of task forces to delineate the differences between research, quality improvement, and evidence-based practices, and ensure protections of all types of data.