Graph based model to support nurses' work

Area of Science:

• Health Informatics
• Knowledge Management in Healthcare
• Nursing Informatics

Background:

• Effective knowledge management is crucial for quality healthcare delivery.
• Nurses require efficient access to information to improve patient care.
• Current systems may not adequately support nurses' specific information needs.

Purpose of the Study:

• To describe a system designed to assist nurses in generating nursing care plans.
• To enhance the focus on relevant resources for specific nursing situations.
• To improve the quality and efficiency of healthcare service delivery.

Main Methods:

• Development of a system based on a multi-relational property graph.
• Modeling the nursing domain using an ontology within the graph structure.
• Implementing indices for efficient partitioning and searching of the knowledge space.

Main Results:

• The system effectively models the nursing domain and relevant knowledge.
• It facilitates the identification of pertinent solutions for nursing problems.
• The graph-based approach enables efficient information retrieval.

Conclusions:

• The proposed system offers a flexible and efficient method for nursing care plan creation.
• It supports nurses by directing their attention to the most relevant information.
• This approach has the potential to improve nursing practice and healthcare outcomes.