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Online Reading List for the course.

Accessing the Articles from the Online Reading List

Image of a blue and green earth with a computer mouse and cord over it.Most of the articles in this online reading list are coming from the CSS Library databases. When using the Library databases and accessing the articles from any of the Online Reading Lists, be sure to use one of these internet browsers - Mozilla, Chrome, or Safari (Macs).  Do not use Internet Explorer. The databases do not work well in Internet Explorer. The vendors of the databases have been notified about this problem but they have not created a fix for this as of yet.

If you continue to have trouble accessing any of the articles, please contact Julie Rustad. Her contact information is located below.

Accessing Online Articles

To access the articles in the reading list:

  • Click on the linked title of the article.
  • Next, login to the system with your CSS login (the same username and password as my.CSS, Brightspace courses, and CSS email).
  • You will then be brought into the database, where you will find the record of the article.
  • Look for the link for full text of the article - for Ebsco databases, look for the PDF on the left side of the page; for the ScienceDirect database, look for the PDF towards the top near the search text box; the ProQuest databases, look for the PDF on the right side of the page in the small box next to the bold title of the article, and for Ovid databases, look for the PDF on the right side of the page. There are a few articles that are published freely on the internet, and the PDF is not available for these articles.

If you have any problems locating the PDF, please contact Julie Rustad. 

Dashboard Resources

To access this article, click on the citation. You will be prompted for your CSS login. This is the same username and password you use to access Brightspace, my.CSS, and your CSS email. If you encounter problems, please contact Julie Rustad.


Academia

Marshall, J. (2016). Online course selection: Using course dashboards to inform student enrollment decisions. Open Learning, 31, 245-259. https://doi.org/10.1080/02680513.2016.1227699  (Student Enrollment Decisions)   

Clinical System Support

Clarke, S., Wilson, M. L., & Terhaar, M. (2016). Using clinical decision support and dashboard technology to improve heart team efficiency and accuracy in a transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) program. Nursing Informatics, 2016, 98-102. doi:10.3233/978-1-61499-658-3-98 (Heart Team-TAVI)

Clarke, S., Wilson, M. L., & Terhaar, M. (2016). Using dashboard technology and clinical decision support systems to improve heart team efficiency and accuracy: Review of the literature. Nursing Informatics, 2016, 364-366. doi:10.3233/978-1-61499-658-3-364 (Heart Team)

Sim, L. L., Ban, K. H., Tan, T. W., Sethi, S. K., & Loh, T. P. (2017). Development of a clinical decision support system for diabetes care: A pilot study. Plos One, 12(2), e0173021. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0173021 (Diabetes Care)

Decision Making

Mick, J. (2011). Data-driven decision making: A nursing research and evidence-based practice dashboard. The Journal of Nursing Administration, 41, 391-393. doi:10.1097/NNA.0b013e31822edb8c (Nursing Research, EBP)

Weiner, J., Balijepally, V., & Tanniru, M. (2015). Integrating strategic and operational decision making using data-driven dashboards: The case of St. Joseph Mercy Oakland Hospital. Journal of Healthcare Management, 60, 319-330. https://doi.org/10.1097/00115514-201509000-00006  (Case Study - Strategy and Operations)

Design

Martin, N., Bergs, J., Eerdekens, D., Depaire, B., & Verelst, S. (2017). Developing an emergency department crowding dashboard: A design science approach. International Emergency Nursing, 39, 68-76. doi:10.1016/ienj.2017.08.001 (ED Crowding)

Serb, C. (2011, June). Effective dashboards: What to measure and how to show it. H&HN: Hospitals & Health Networks, 85(6), 40. (Executive) 

Electronic Visibility Boards

Field, M., Fong, K., & Shade, C. (2018). Use of electronic visibility boards to improve patient care quality, safety, and flow on inpatient pediatric acute care units. Journal of Pediatric Nursing, 41, 69-76. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pedn.2018.01.015 (Inpatient Pedatric Acute Care)

Patient Care

Koopman, R. J., Kochendorfer, K. M., Moore, J. L., Mehr, D. R., Wakefield, D. S., Yadasuren, B., ... Belden, J. L. (2011). A diabetes dashboard and physician efficiency and accuracy in accessing data needed for high-quality diabetes careAnnals of Family Medicine, 9, 398-405. doi:10.1370/afm.1286 (Diabetes)

Planning

Hall, J. T., & Kelly, C. M. (2014, January). A partnership to enhance outcomes through quality dashboards and action planning. American Nurse Today, 9(1), 58-61. (Action Planning, Multidepartmental Task Force)

Quality Improvement

Kavanaugh, M. J., So, J. D., Park, P. J., & Davis, K. L. (2017). Validation of the intensive care unit early warning dashboard: Quality improvement utilizing a retrospective case-control evaluation. Telemedicine and E-Health, 23(2), 88-95. doi:10/1089/tmj.2016.0073 (Quality Improvement, ICU-Early Warning)

Klobucher, L. M. (2011). Ambulatory EHR: Dashboards for quality and meaningful use (Master's thesis). Available from ProQuest Dissertations and Theses database. (UMI No. 1501316). (Quality and Meaningful Use - Ambulatory EHR, CSS MS, Applied Project)

 

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