Biomedical subjects

C A Ashton

Publications and source records attributed to C A Ashton.

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PubMed1997

The national Healing Web partnership. An innovative model to improve health.

The authors describe the Healing Web, a partnership between nursing service and education that encourages the best use of nurses education clinical experience and personal competencies. Based on differentiated practice and education of nursing students in multi-level roles the Healing Web partnership is demonstrating at multiple institutions, that education and nursing service can work collaboratively to position the profession of nursing for maximum effectiveness in the 21st century.

Education, Nursing, Associate↗

PubMed1997

LDS hospital, a facility of Intermountain Health Care, Salt Lake City, Utah.

On-line documentation by nurses and a comprehensive text management system are functional in several facilities of intermountain Health Care (IHC). The following articles detail factors in the design and implementation of this computerized network as experienced at LDS Hospital, part of the IHC system. Areas discussed are the system's applications for medical decision support, communication, patient classification, nurse staffing versus cost, emergency department usage, patient problem/event recording, clinical outcomes, and text publication. Users express satisfaction with the time saving, consistency of reporting, and cohesiveness of these applications.

Decision Support Techniques↗

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A methodologic framework to study nurse-patient communication.

Communicative interaction patterns among nurses and patients in a complex hospital setting were examined, using the methodologic framework, synchronology. Extensive videotaped time-series data of patient-health care personnel interactions, involving four patients admitted for elective surgery, were collected approximately 16 hours a day from admission to discharge and computerized in both mnemonic word form and numeric files. These interactional data were instrumental in the methodologic development. Communicative interaction is conceptualized as a dynamic, ongoing behavior process which can be studied by identifying the observed effects of presenting behaviors on the participants. The process is complex, contex-related, and multivariate in nature. Synchronology provides a structure for in-context description and analysis of the complex verbal and nonverbal interaction patterns, preservation of multivariate data, and identification of key concepts in human interaction which are of use in education, practice, and research.

Communication↗