Simulating Nursing Unit Performance With OrgAhead

Research on Nursing Unit

Using OrgAhead, a computational modeling program, to improve patient care unit safety and quality outcomes

As part of ongoing research to investigate the impact of patient characteristics, organization characteristics and patient unit characteristics on safety and quality outcomes, we used a computational modeling program, OrgAhead, to model patient care units' achievement of patient safety (medication errors and falls) and quality outcomes. We tuned OrgAhead using data we collected from 32 units in...

Nursing Care and Documentation Assistant with an Electronic Nursing Management System in Neonatal Intensive Care Unit

Background: All nursing cares require decision-making, and the ability to make the best decisions impact upon the quality of nursing care. Moreover, authenticity and accuracy of the best cares may be questioned if not recorded and reported properly and in a standard manner. We aimed to design and implement an electronic nursing managementsystem and then evaluate satisfaction of nurses with the ...

Simulating Parallel Program Performance with CLUE

In this paper the simulation and assessment tool CLUE is described. This tool is able to simulate the performance of parallel programs using the message passing library PVM for communication, run on arbitrary parallel m achines, including PC clusters. CLUE redirects calls to PVM to its own functions, providing an additional layer between an application and PVM. The simulation is driven by the a...

Simulating building energy performance for comparison with measured performance

1 The contributions of the simulation paper are 1. A definition and list of simulation approximations and a mechanism to identify performance problems from differences between measured and simulated data. 2. Specific evidence of limitations of whole-building simulation tools (in particular EnergyPlus) for use to simulate actual operating conditions. Gaps: Previous research only mentions project...