TITLE:
Methodology for Developing a Nursing Administration Analysis System
AUTHORS:
Misao Miyagawa, Tetsuya Tanioka, Yuko Yasuhara, Kazuyuki Matsumoto, Hirokazu Ito, Motoyuki Suzuki, Ren Fuji, Rozzano Locsin
KEYWORDS:
Nursing Administration, Clinical Pathways, Variance, Analysis System, PSYCHOMS®
JOURNAL NAME:
Intelligent Information Management,
Vol.6 No.3,
May
20,
2014
ABSTRACT: Nursing
administration requires a large volume of wide-ranging information, and nurse
administrators are limited in their ability to compile and analyze information
for nursing administration. The purpose of this study is to create methodology
for developing a nursing administration analysis system to aid nurse
administrators in performing outcome analysis. In this methodology, information
required for nursing administration in the PSYCHOMS? (Psychiatric
Outcome Management System, registered trademark) database is analyzed according
to the individual needs of nurse administrators. It features a combination of a
classification method and an extraction method for obtaining quantitative and
qualitative data as information required for nursing administration, and
enables nurse administrators to easily obtain analysis results that they
directly need. This methodology converts the time required nurse administrators
to collect and organize information into time for making considerations in
order to devise strategies for improving the quality of nursing care services,
and can improve the quality and efficiency of nursing administration. This may
lead to an increase of the quality of nursing care services at psychiatric
hospitals. This methodology is highly versatile as it can be applied in
information management, not only for nursing, but for the entire psychiatric
hospital.