title: Proposing a New Conceptual Model and an Exemplar Measure Using Health Information: Technology to Examine the Impact of Relational Nurse Continuity on Hospital-Acquired Pressure Ulcers.
abstract: The influence of the staffing variable relational nurse continuity on patient outcomes has been rarely studied and with inconclusive results. Multiple definitions and an absence of systematic methods for measuring the influence of continuity have resulted in its exclusion from nurse-staffing studies and conceptual models. We present a new conceptual model and an innovative use of health information technology to measure relational nurse continuity and to demonstrate the potential for bringing the results of big data science back to the bedside. Understanding the power of big data to address critical clinical issues may foster a new direction for nursing administration theory development.
authors.affiliation: College of Nursing, University of Illinois at Chicago (Drs Stifter and Lopez); College of Nursing, University of Florida, Gainesville (Drs Yao, Wilkie, and Keenan); and Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Illinois (Dr Khokhar).
authors.forename: Janet
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Stifter
authors.forename: Yingwei
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Yao
authors.forename: Karen Dunn
authors.initials: KD
authors.lastname: Lopez
authors.forename: Ashfaq
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Khokhar
authors.forename: Diana J
authors.initials: DJ
authors.lastname: Wilkie
authors.forename: Gail M
authors.initials: GM
authors.lastname: Keenan
mesh_terms: D003266:Continuity of Patient Care / Q000592:standards*; D006760:Hospitalization; D006801:Humans; D016294:Models, Nursing; D009732:Nursing Care / Q000592:standards*; D009741:Nursing Staff, Hospital / Q000592:standards*; D009742:Nursing Theory; D010561:Personnel Staffing and Scheduling / Q000592:standards*; D003668:Pressure Ulcer / Q000451:nursing*; D011787:Quality of Health Care / Q000592:standards*