A History of the Development of the Navy Medical Department's Workload Management System for Nursing.
Abstract
The need to objectively quantify nursing workload has led to numerous interdisciplinary studies of nurse staffing methodologies. This report provides a historical review of nurse staffing as a management function and describes patient classification, a concept underlying many staffing methodologies. A chronological history and analysis of the nurse staffing research conducted by the Naval School of Health Sciences, Bethesda, Maryland, is then presented. In 1978 the Navy Medical Department initiated a pilot study of nursing workload by testing and modifying the assignment-element-difficulty staffing methodology. A patient classification methodology was incorporated in the Navy's staffing research when classification emerged as a prominent component of civilian nurse staffing systems. In 1983 the results of the Navy Medical Department studies were merged with nurse staffing research conducted by the US Army Health Care Studies and Clinical Investigation Activity, Fort Sam Houston, the workload Management System for nursing (WMSN), a patient classification system and daily staffing allocation methodology.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Aug 01, 1987
- Accession Number
- ADA185803
Entities
People
- Susan B. Lensing