title: Feasibility of using the Omaha System to represent public health nurse manager interventions.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To test the feasibility of representing public health nurse (PHN) manager interventions using a recognized standardized nursing terminology.
  
  
  METHODS
  A nurse manager in a Midwest local public health agency documented nurse manager interventions using the Omaha System for 5 months. ANALYTIC STRATEGY: The data were analyzed and the results were compared with the results from a parallel analysis of existing PHN intervention data.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Interventions for 79 "clients" (projects, teams, or individuals) captured 76% of recorded work hours, and addressed 43% of Omaha System problems. Most problems were addressed at the "community" level (87.1%) versus the "individual" level (12.9%).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Nursing practice differed between the 2 knowledge domains of public health family home visiting nursing and public health nursing management. Standardized nursing terminologies have the potential to represent, describe, and quantify nurse manager interventions for future evaluation and research.
authors.affiliation: School of Nursing, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA. mons0122@umn.edu
authors.forename: Karen A
authors.initials: KA
authors.lastname: Monsen
authors.forename: Eric T
authors.initials: ET
authors.lastname: Newsom
mesh_terms: D022143:Family Nursing; D005240:Feasibility Studies; D006801:Humans; D007857:Leadership; D015146:Midwestern United States; D009718:Nurse Administrators; D019982:Organizational Case Studies; D017063:Outcome Assessment, Health Care / Q000379:methods* / Q000592:standards; D057184:Practice Patterns, Nurses'; D011637:Public Health Nursing; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D013647:Task Performance and Analysis; D018875:Vocabulary, Controlled