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Health Information Interchange
No full textHealth is information intensive: it has many disparate groups with multiple perspectives and subcultures. Each group sees things slightly differently, but they must all capture, communicate, reliably retrieve and re-use information between each other and across multiple settings. This chapter examines some of the methods used to represent data and to enable information interchange across the health spectrum
An Historical Analysis of the Development of Community-Based Health Services in Queensland 1969-1981
No full textThis study describes and critically analyses the structure and development of community-based health services in Queensland in the 1970s. The study focuses on the development of community nursing. In the 1970s nurses were the largest single group of health professionals working in community-based health services and were identified as being central to the fulfillment of the Community Health programme (CHP).Thesis (PhD Doctorate)Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)School of NursingGriffith HealthFull Tex
Aged Care in the Future and Baby Boomers: Shall the Twain Ever Meet?
No full textBackground: The ageing of baby boomers may create significant financial strain upon aged and community care in the future. Topic and Objectives: In this literature review, we examine why concern has been expressed about Australia’s ability to cope with the “baby boomer bubble”. We discuss differences between baby boomers and their parents and within the baby boomer cohort, and suggest that these differences may result in problems in provision of aged care to baby boomers should current trends continue. Implications: There must be a fit between future models of aged care and the needs and expectations of baby boomers. The views of baby boomers on these issues must be gathered to maximise the likelihood that this fit will occur
Health informatics : transforming healthcare with technology /
No full textIn today's healthcare system the most pervasive and transformational tool is information technology - its efficient use is an essential skill for all health workers. Health Informatics: Transforming Healthcare with Technology discusses health information systems and contains diverse case studies and stories from policy makers, managers, academics, clinicians and those working in outback clinics. The text concludes by pushing the boundaries into genomics and by outlining the future direction of information technology in the healthcare system. Health Informatics is essential reading for students and healthcare workers across all health disciplines and is a valuable resource for those considering implementing health information systems into their practices or institutions. Technology is one of the most pervasive and ubiquitous tools in healthcare today. It is not only transforming healthcare but also the professions within it. This book provides the background and skills necessary to understand the collection, storage, retrieval, communication and optimal use of health-related data, information and knowledge. - publisher description
Clinical Decision Making: Issues in Teaching
No full textThe evolution of nursing as a discrete profession with a distinctive knowledge base and orientation towards health care, has emphasised and increased the importance of clinical decision making. Implicit within clinical thinking are two types of knowledge: theoretical knowledge and applied knowledge as it relates to the clinical setting.
The theoretical component is articulated in many texts but unfortunately the component derived from practice - the knowing how, has been found mostly in the "folk" milieu of the practice setting. The intrinsic nature of this knowledge has lead to an inadequacy in the record of the clinical experience. Benner's work in 1982, little had been written and the impetus for action remained hidden as tacit knowledge.
Teaching the processes underlying clinical decision making has always proved difficult. While many frameworks have been devised to simplify the steps and make the process more explicit, the problems seem to continue. This leaves us to ponder on the issues surrounding the teaching of clinical decision making with a subsequent challenge of being able help integrate students' clinical decision making ability into the practice setting.Griffith Health, School of Nursing and MidwiferyFull Tex
The International Classification for Nursing Practice: a Tool to Support Nursing Practice?
No full textNurses have been slow to realise the uniqueness of their data and the importance of data management across the profession. This has resulted in nursing being neglected as a partner in healthcare because the data nurses collect cannot be easily retrieved from the patient record and is not widely used to support nursing practice. Nurses, as they should, have rejected language classification systems that are inadequate or inappropriate, but with the implementation of electronic health records, consensus on language classification must be achieved. One problem has been finding an appropriate terminology/s that represents the spectrum of nursing practice while making sense to both the user and computer. In 1989 the International Council of Nurses began work to achieve this and the International Classification for Nursing Practice (ICNP?) was born. This paper provides an insight into language classification, explores the ICNPs a tool for nursing practice and discusses some of the projects undertaken thus far.Griffith Health, School of Nursing and MidwiferyNo Full Tex
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