title: Redesigning a risk-management process for tracking injuries.
abstract: The changing responsibilities of registered nurses are challenging even the most dedicated professionals. To survive within her newly-defined roles, one nurse used a total quality improvement model to understand, analyze, and improve a medical center's system for tracking inpatient injuries. This process led to the drafting of an original software design that implemented a nursing informatics tracking system. It has resulted in significant savings of time and money and has far surpassed the accuracy, efficiency, and scope of the previous method. This article presents an overview of the design process.
authors.affiliation: Butler Veterans Affairs Medical Center, PA, USA.
authors.forename: G R
authors.initials: GR
authors.lastname: Wenzel
mesh_terms: D000058:Accidental Falls / Q000517:prevention & control*; D003628:Database Management Systems; D004496:Education, Continuing; D017598:Efficiency, Organizational; D006787:Hospitals, Veterans / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D007297:Inpatients; D009718:Nurse Administrators; D010414:Pennsylvania; D012308:Risk Management / Q000379:methods*; D012984:Software; D012985:Software Design; D013597:Systems Analysis; D014947:Wounds and Injuries / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000517:prevention & control*