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Nursing Performance Data
Over the last 20 years health care organisations across the globe have seen an increase in the pace of change. The continuing drive towards cost-effectiveness, quality of care and clinical governance are causing more and more NHS Trusts to closely examine the mix of their staff skills. Despite 20 years of research and skill mix management in practice, there continues to be concerns between the mix of qualified and unqualified staff being employed within the healthcare industry particularly in relation to cost /quality ratios.
Q-Acuity
The main resource of the NHS is its workforce. However, achieving the correct mix of staff is crucial in order to provide high-quality cost-effective patient care. Our web based acuity and dependency solution has been designed to:
- Simplify and automate the collection of nursing acuity data
- Enables skills mix performance measurement across numerous wards and units
- Reports on the quality of care.
- Produces numerous reports using nursing sensitivity indicators and acuity data
- Analyses and identifies quality of care.
- Trends for seasonal changes, demographic shifts and healthcare needs.
- Reports workforce plans and accurately identifies and predicts nursing requirements to meet patient and care needs.
Key Benefits
The tool automates paper based systems for acuity and dependency measurement:
- Reduced manual input and effort duplication.
- Centralised and secure data repository.
- Easy access and login at ward level.
- Web based and accessible 24/7 via any terminal
- Data collection held in one source.
- Evidenced based decision support.
- Quality control across numerous wards and organisations.
- Consistent and regular reporting on acuity data.
- Comprehensive reports.
- Minimised timeline for report production and analysis.
- Levels of patients on wards.
- Data collected is associated with other key data such as.:
- Nurse sensitive indicators
- Patient flow
- Quality of care
- Staff hours and rostering
Key Features:
- Easy access and login at ward level.
- Data integrity and system audits.
- Unlimited input for sensitivity indicators.
- Data collection at source.
- Evidenced based decision support reports.
- Quality control monitoring.
- Multi wards and departments.
A combination of nurse sensitive indicators and patient flow statistics associated with acuity and dependency data will support professional decisions and staff forecasts enabling NHS Trusts to plan and establish their care needs more effectively.
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