Abstract
AimTo identify nurse managers' essential information needs in daily unit operation in perioperative settings.DesignQualitative and quantitative descriptive design.MethodsThe study consisted of (I) generation of an item pool of potential information needs, (II) assessment of the item pool by an expert panel and (III) confirming the essential information needs of nurse managers in daily unit operation with a survey (N = 288). Content validity index values were calculated for the assessments by expert panel and in the survey. Internal consistency of the final item pool was explored with Cronbach's alpha. The data were collected from 2011–2015.ResultsDuring the study process, the number of essential information needs decreased from 92–41. The final item pool consisted of 12 subthemes, and they were categorized into four main themes: patient's care process, surgical procedure, human resources and tangible resources. The findings can be used to create a knowledge map for information system purposes.
Highlights
Nurse managers make numerous operative decisions every day without proper and sufficient information (Siirala, Peltonen, Lundgrén-Laine, Salanterä, & Junttila, 2016) in perioperative settings, especially in operating departments and day surgery units
This study aimed to identify nurse managers' essential information needs in daily unit operation in perioperative settings
The term nurse manager is here used for all the nursing professionals, that is charge nurses, assistant nurse managers and administrative nurse managers who were in charge of the daily unit operations in an unit, that is an operating department or a day surgery unit
Summary
Nurse managers make numerous operative decisions every day without proper and sufficient information (Siirala, Peltonen, Lundgrén-Laine, Salanterä, & Junttila, 2016) in perioperative settings, especially in operating departments and day surgery units. Nurse managers form the wisdom needed for decision-making by using data, information and knowledge in daily unit operation (Rowley, 2007). Rescheduling of surgical procedures Staff allocation Ensuring adequate staff Following up the daily unit operation Confirmation of tangible resources. The necessary resources of nursing care are planned after the allocation of time slots for the medical specialties (Di Martinelly, Baptiste, & Maknoon, 2014). Information concerning decisions about the patient's care process. Information concerning decisions about tangible resource | 5. Information concerning decisions about the patient's care process: 26 items The information needs derived from qualitative think aloud data (Siirala et al, 2016)
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