Engaging Frontline Nurses in Building an Electronic Workload Acuity Tool

Nursing leadership and nursing informaticists engaged bedside nurses in the design, build, and evaluation of the Nursing Workload Acuity tool, which produced a robust evaluation process and seamless implementation of an acuity tool embedded in the electronic health record. The tool uses existing data elements from the electronic health record that are mapped to rules to produce a dynamic score. Bedside nurses evaluated content, points, and scoring, which confirmed the acuity tool included necessary elements and matched nursing perception of workload greater than 90% consistently.
Source: Nurse Leader - Category: Nursing Authors: Source Type: research