Building a nursing management analysis capacity in a teaching hospital.
The authors describe one institution's efforts to create the capacity to use standard hospital information systems to address clinical and operational nursing questions. This work involved not only technical aspects of information management system creation but also building the human currency to make the information available and useful. Because the information available to nursing comes from the same data sources that feed operational management and finance departments, nursing can now speak in the same language at the policy tables.
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Yale School of Nursing, New Haven, CT 06536-0740, USA.
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Bozzo
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Allegretto
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Pollack
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D002017:Budgets; D003237:Connecticut; D003627:Data Interpretation, Statistical; D005377:Financial Management, Hospital / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006751:Hospital Information Systems / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006784:Hospitals, Teaching; D006801:Humans; D015401:Nursing Administration Research; D009731:Nursing Audit; D009745:Nursing, Supervisory / Q000458:organization & administration*; D010043:Outcome and Process Assessment, Health Care / Q000458:organization & administration*