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Halley Ruppel1, Margaret McCabe, Maria Tickner
1Author Affiliations: Research Assistant Professor (Dr Ruppel), Senior Director of Center for Pediatric Nursing Research and Evidence-Based Practice (Dr McCabe), Lead Data Analyst (Tickner), Project Manager (Ventura), Data Analytics Manager (Chandrasekhar), Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer (Akhter), Senior Vice President and System Chief Nursing Officer (Agosto), and Ruth M. Colket Endowed Chair in Pediatric Nursing (Dr Curley), Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; and Research Assistant Professor (Dr Ruppel) and Professor of Nursing (Dr Curley), Department of Family and Community Health, University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing, Philadelphia.
Abstract:
Clinical units and their nursing staffs are heterogeneous. Advances in data and analytics provide opportunities to better match patient needs with nurse competencies. Building upon a previous publication on a unit profile dashboard, team members now describe development of a nursing dashboard aggregating characteristics of staff on each clinical unit of the hospital. This article describes methods, challenges, and future directions for nurse leaders to use the dashboards to optimize care delivery and patient and nurse outcomes.
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