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A systematic method to document population-level nursing interventions in an electronic health system.
1College of Nursing, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI 53201, USA. baisch@uwm.edu
Public Health Nursing (Boston, Mass.)
|July 7, 2012
Summary
Public health electronic health systems can now better capture population-based nursing interventions. This method enhances documentation of public health nursing practice and effectiveness in community health initiatives.
Area of Science:
- Public Health
- Nursing Informatics
- Health Systems Research
Background:
- Electronic health systems often lack specificity to differentiate individual vs. population-based public health nursing care.
- Documenting the full scope of public health nursing practice is crucial for demonstrating community health impact, especially with limited resources.
Purpose of the Study:
- To describe a method for documenting population-based nursing practice within electronic health information systems.
- To enhance the granularity of data captured on public health nursing interventions.
Main Methods:
- Incorporated population-based interventions from the Intervention Wheel into the Omaha System taxonomy.
- Adapted the Automated Community Health Information System (ACHIS) to integrate these new interventions.
- Developed and tested the system's capacity to capture district public health nurse model practices.
Main Results:
- Successfully integrated population-based interventions into the Omaha System taxonomy within ACHIS.
- Demonstrated the system's ability to capture the practice of the district public health nurse model.
- Provided a replicable method for documenting population-based public health nursing.
Conclusions:
- Adapting existing data systems with specific taxonomies can effectively capture population-based nursing interventions.
- This approach can improve the evaluation of public health nursing processes and outcomes.
- Public health administrators can utilize this method to better understand and showcase nursing's contribution to community health.
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