Examining standardized consumer-generated social determinants of health and resilience data supported by Omaha System terminology.

Nursing terminologies like the Omaha System are foundational in realizing the vision of formal representation of social determinants of health (SDOH) data and whole-person health across biological, behavioral, social, and environmental domains. This study objective was to examine standardized consumer-generated SDOH data and resilience (strengths) using the MyStrengths+MyHealth (MSMH) app built using Omaha System. Overall, 19 SDOH concepts were analyzed including 19 Strengths, 175 Challenges, and 76 Needs with additional analysis around Income Challenges.

Creating a quadruple aim model for nursing education.

Baccalaureate nursing education is moving to adopt the new American Association of Colleges of Nursing Essentials for Professional Nursing Education. As identified in two of the six domains of the essentials, graduates need to be prepared to address population health and utilize informatics and healthcare technologies. Community/public health nursing also has eight domains for generalist nurses linked to population health which will help prepare a skilled nursing workforce for the 21st century.

An International Research Collaborative to Examine Global Health Resilience Using the MyStrengths+MyHealth Application.

International organizations have called for the development of programs to strengthen global health resilience. This poster describes the development of an international research collaborative to examine whole-person health and resilience using the web-based application MyStrengths+MyHealth (MSMH). MSMH enables individuals to self-report strengths (resilience), challenges, and needs using simplified terms that have been community validated and at the fourth grade US reading level.

Feasibility of describing community strengths relative to Omaha system concepts.

Objectives: The purpose was to determine the feasibility of using a standardized language, the Omaha System, to describe community-level strengths. The objectives were: (a) to evaluate the feasibility of using the Omaha System at the community level to reflect community strengths and (b) to describe preliminary results of community strengths observations across international settings.

Design And Sample: A descriptive qualitative design was used.

Nursing Theory, Terminology, and Big Data: Data-Driven Discovery of Novel Patterns in Archival Randomized Clinical Trial Data.

Background: The growth and diversification of nursing theory, nursing terminology, and nursing data enable a convergence of theory- and data-driven discovery in the era of big data research. Existing datasets can be viewed through theoretical and terminology perspectives using visualization techniques in order to reveal new patterns and generate hypotheses. The Omaha System is a standardized terminology and metamodel that makes explicit the theoretical perspective of the nursing discipline and enables terminology-theory testing research.

Effective Teaching-Learning Strategies for the Omaha System.

Home healthcare clinicians can benefit from the use of interprofessional standardized terminologies to more efficiently document and assess patient problems, describe and present clinician interventions, and measure the outcomes of care. The Omaha System is a research-based, comprehensive standardized terminology that can enable users to describe and measure the impact of nursing and healthcare services on patient care and outcomes. In this article, we (1) describe effective strategies for teaching the Omaha System to home healthcare agency staff, and (2) illustrate those strategies' effectiveness by presenting an example from an Omaha System Basic Workshop conducted in 2015.

Feasibility of Using the Omaha System for Community-level Observations.

Objectives: The purpose of this study was to determine the feasibility of using a standardized language, the Omaha System, to capture community-level observations to facilitate population assessment and electronic information exchange. The objectives were: (1) to evaluate the feasibility of using the Omaha System at the community level to reflect community observations and (2) to describe preliminary results of community observations across international settings.

Design And Sample: Descriptive.

Firefighter hearing health: an informatics approach to screening, measurement, and research.

Objective: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the use of a standardized interface terminology, the Omaha System, with respect to noise-induced hearing loss (NIHL).

Design: A descriptive, correlational design was employed for this secondary analysis with the data from an ongoing hearing protection intervention study.

Study Sample: A total of 346 firefighters were included.

The Omaha system and meaningful use: applications for practice, education, and research.

Meaningful use has become ubiquitous in the vocabulary of health information technology. It suggests that better healthcare does not result from the adoption of technology and electronic health records, but by increasing interoperability and informing clinical decisions at the point of care. Although the initial application of meaningful use was limited to eligible professionals and hospitals, it incorporates complex processes and workflow that involve all nurses, other healthcare practitioners, and settings.

Omaha System data: methods for research and program evaluation.

Researchers are developing methods to evaluate health care quality and effectiveness using health informatics data sets. Standardized taxonomies such as the Omaha System are being used in computerized documentation systems to generate data on client assessments and health care services. Questions such as prevalence of client problems, care utilization, differential intervention effectiveness, and problem-specific client outcomes can be investigated.

Comparing maternal child health problems and outcomes across public health nursing agencies.

To use aggregated data from health informatics systems to identify needs of maternal and child health (MCH) clients served by county public health agencies and to demonstrate outcomes of services provided. Participating agencies developed and implemented a formal standardized classification data comparison process using structured Omaha System data. An exploratory descriptive analysis of the data was performed.

Three decades of Omaha System research: Providing the map to discover new directions.

The Omaha System is a classification system or standardized terminology designed to enhance practice, documentation, and information management. Fifty unique studies were identified that focused on the Omaha System's Problem Classification Scheme, the Intervention Scheme, and the Problem Rating Scale for Outcomes. A computerized search of the research literature used CINAHL, MEDLINE, and Dissertation Abstracts databases for the years 1982 to 2003 on the keyword, Omaha System.

Introducing standardized terminologies to nurses: Magic wands and other strategies.

Information technology advances have created a revolution that is transforming health care delivery. Practice, documentation, and communication are becoming data-driven. As a result, vendors are rapidly developing and upgrading their computerized clinical information systems; more health care providers are purchasing and implementing these systems.

A public health nursing informatics data-and-practice quality project.

Automation of nursing documentation in client records is one of today's formidable challenges in healthcare settings. Some stakeholders view standardized nursing language as a fundamental component of an automated record, with the end goal of generating valid, reliable data on nursing services and client outcomes. However, few successful applications of standardized nursing language for practice standards and data generation exist in the literature.

Using an outcomes management program in a public health department.

This article and its predecessor offer suggestions to nurses in all service settings by describing how a local public health department planned and implemented its outcomes management program. Included are the steps used to select and analyze reliable and valid quantitative outcomes data, and examples of graphs that depict and interpret those data. The outcomes management program was designed to provide needed information for program planning and evaluation, and for communication with administrators and local government officials.

Developing an outcomes management program in a public health department.

A local public health department planned and implemented a comprehensive outcomes management program over a 5-year period. Critical components included commitment of leadership and staff, collaborative decision-making related to clinical record software selection, extensive staff training and support in documentation and automation, and ongoing evaluation. This successful program now provides reliable and valid quantitative outcomes data for the department.

Expanding American Nurses Association nursing quality indicators to community-based practices.

Continuing its commitment to patient care quality, the American Nurses Association appointed a committee in 1997 to expand nursing-sensitive quality indicators beyond acute care. This article is the final report describing the processes used to identify a core set of community-based quality indicators relevant to nurses across the care continuum and identifies next steps. The indicator categories are (a) change in symptom severity, (b) strength of the therapeutic alliance, (c) utilization of services, (d) client satisfaction, (e) risk reduction, (f) increase in protective factors, and (g) level of function/functional status.