ISSN:0363-9568    

出版商:OVID    

年代:2003

数据来源: OVID

ISSN:0363-9568    

出版商:OVID    

年代:2003

数据来源: OVID

ISSN:0363-9568    

出版商:OVID    

年代:2003

数据来源: OVID

ISSN:0363-9568    

出版商:OVID    

年代:2003

数据来源: OVID

摘要:

Nurses are quintessential learners. Nested between the fields of science and technology, the professional mandate for life-long learning has never been greater. The expanding demands for performance and quality coupled with the reality of diminishing time and resources increasingly frustrate and challenge providers in the field. By blending the best of current training and education with the emerging potential of virtual learning, new models for enhancing clinical reasoning and performance will simplify the challenges of complexity, moving it to higher order. In this transition lies the key to restoring the joy and commitment of professional practice while enhancing the capacity to care with competence.

ISSN:0363-9568    

出版商:OVID    

年代:2003

数据来源: OVID

摘要:

The administrative nursing staff was asked to identify innovative technology that supported the mission and philosophy of the Emory Health Care System. The Directors of Nursing identified multiple high technology systems that enhance financial strength, innovation, leadership, people and workplace, and knowledge management. These systems are presented in this article.

ISSN:0363-9568    

出版商:OVID    

年代:2003

数据来源: OVID

摘要:

E-learning, online computer (Web)-based educational training, may be the solution to keeping health care staff abreast of new technologies, information, and regulations. Compared with traditional classroom teaching, e-learning can deliver content faster to the entire staff, be individualized to meet pace, language, and reading level. Additionally, an e-learning system provides accurate and automatic tracking. Although some teaching methodologies are key to ensuring learning (i.e., skills' demonstration or practicing negotiation skills), e-learning can decrease time away from work by providing essential information and content.

ISSN:0363-9568    

出版商:OVID    

年代:2003

数据来源: OVID

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Using computer simulation can enhance the management decision-making process. Simulations can predict the effects on cost and quality of services. This article discusses the use of computer simulation to assist in planning the reengineering process to change a hospital's drug distribution from a decentralized pharmacy satellite system to a centralized robotic drug dispensing system. Because computer simulation was based on a fixed set of circumstances, circumstances changed before system implemented. Nursing and pharmacy staff and line managers were involved in the review, planning, and implementation that resulted in positive economic and quality outcomes for this project. For organizations to achieve successful change, administrators must play an active and essential part.

ISSN:0363-9568    

出版商:OVID    

年代:2003

数据来源: OVID

摘要:

The health care network and hospital system within the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), the Veterans Health Administration (VHA), provides employment to more than 56,000 nursing personnel and serves as clinical education site to countless other nursing and health professional students. Nurse administrators and educators are posed with the challenge of providing an environment in which each nurse is able to gain needed knowledge, learn new skills, and share and communicate this knowledge with other colleagues. The education of nurses improves the health status of veterans while also realizing individual professional enhancement. Regional and cultural diversity of the system present challenges to education, in both delivery and content. VHA's learning organizations, the Employee Education System and the Office of Special Projects, have maximized new technologies and information systems to provide innovative, virtual education opportunities, capitalizing on the benefits of informal and formal learning, thus moving VHA to the forefront in knowledge sharing and dissemination. The Virtual Learning Center, VA Knowledge Network, Learning Catalog, and VA Learning Online provide VHA's nurses with interactive, desktop virtual learning opportunities.

ISSN:0363-9568    

出版商:OVID    

年代:2003

数据来源: OVID

摘要:

Successful organizations have the ability to measure and act on key indicators and events in real time. By leveraging the power of virtual instrumentation and open architecture standards, multidimensional executive dashboards can empower health care organizations to make better and faster data-driven decisions. This article will highlight how user-defined virtual instruments and dashboards can connect to hospital information systems (e.g., admissions/discharge/transfer systems, patient monitoring networks) and use statistical process control to “visualize” information and make timely, data-driven decisions. The case studies described will illustrate enterprisewide solutions for: bed management and census control, operational management, data mining and business intelligence applications, and clinical applications (physiological data acquisition and wound measurement and analysis).

ISSN:0363-9568    

出版商:OVID    

年代:2003

数据来源: OVID