EXPLORING HOME HEALTH NURSE DECISION MAKING REGARDING VISIT PLAN DEVELOPMENT

Nurse Delegation Decision Making

Nurse practice in today's world requires that nurses be adept at directing a multi-skilled and diverse workforce. In the U.S. the registered nurse must be clinically competent while simultaneously be knowledgeable of their practice guidelines to ensure safe and effective patient care delivery. In South Africa nurses practice under the South Africa Nursing Council Nursing Act guidelines; in the ...

A Decision-Making Tool for Home Health Care Nurses' Planning

Sonia Hajri-Gabouj URAII, INSAT, Tunis [email protected] This article deals with problems encountered be routing nurses through home health care services. It is difficult to assign patients to different care workers by taking into account their availability and their skills. If patients need several cares during a week, they may be treated by the same employee. We show that this problem...

Decision Making in Health Care: Exploring Cost Variability

Exploring safety critical decision-making

Inadequate handling of conflicting goals has repeatedly been identified as a causal or contributing factor in accidents. This paper documents a workshop approach designed to allow participants to explore the boundaries towards unacceptable risk and the forces driving actors towards that boundary. Participants with diverse professional backgrounds discussed a specific, actual event involving a t...

Decision making: the context of nurse prescribing.

From October 1994 qualified district nurses and health visitors from eight demonstration sites in England have been able to prescribe from a limited list of formulary items. Data collected from nurses formed only one part of the evaluation of nurse prescribing. These data highlighted a number of areas where prescribing nurses were faced with difficult decisions. A number of authors have conside...