Nursing Quality and Analytics is a growing interprofessional team including a Registered Nurse and Business Intelligence Specialists (analysts and programmers). As an arm of the Center for Nursing Excellence and Innovation, the team is positioned in a unique intersection of nursing practice and healthcare analytics. We develop, implement and maintain analytic products with the goal of leveraging data, advanced analysis, innovative methods, and the nursing perspective to:
- Generate insight from nursing data to inform meaningful improvement work
- Support clinical inquiry, quality improvement and equity initiatives
- Provide foundational data structures for ongoing growth of exceptional nursing practice
- Achieve optimal health system quality outcomes
Core Work Includes
- Complex analysis of nursing sensitive indicator process/outcome measures
- Evaluation of key drivers of outcomes, quality, cost, and utilization using data from the electronic health record, patient surveys, and external vendors
- Develop and maintain organization-wide, unit-level and initiative specific reports and analysis to generate insight and action
- Collaborate on cross-functional teams to align with organizational data governance vision
- Lead interprofessional teams to integrate decision support and actionable insight at the point of care to drive patient outcomes
- Manage/analyze data and generates materials to support external reporting/accreditation needs
- Partner with key leaders to design and implement robust quality improvement initiatives and analysis
- Design and implement innovative education programs for nurses at all levels to improve data literacy and access to data and analysis resources
Nursing Quality and Analytics Roadmap
