Data for Nurses

Data for Nurses: Understanding and Using Data to Optimize Care Delivery in Hospitals provides information for nurses on how to work with data to effectively evaluate and improve care delivery for hospitalized patients. Quality, benchmarking, and research data are increasingly used to guide care in hospitals, and nurses are expected to actively use this data to identify interventions to optimize outcomes, although there are no formalized training programs to educate them on how to interpret and apply data to bedside practice. Topics such as data evaluation, project design, data collection and interpretation are discussed in details; it also explains protective measures to guarantee the integrity and security of personal patient data. The book is valuable source for nurses and other health care workers who need information on key principles of data utilization to increase their understanding and engagement in evidence based care.