WGU C790 Nursing Informatics Standard
Taxonomy Already Passed
Workflow ✔✔"a modular sequence of tasks, with a distinct beginning and end, performed for the
specific purpose of delivering clinical
care"
Workflows are
...
WGU C790 Nursing Informatics Standard
Taxonomy Already Passed
Workflow ✔✔"a modular sequence of tasks, with a distinct beginning and end, performed for the
specific purpose of delivering clinical
care"
Workflows are
specified at up to four levels of detail: 1) clinical workflow, 2) phase, 3) task & action, and 4) sub
-action.
patient-centric workflows ✔✔occur when the patient is onsite and interacts with
the staff and clinicians. Patient centric workflows begin when the patient enters the office or ward
and ends when the patient leaves or is discharged.
message--centric workflows ✔✔include care activities that
occur when the patient is not present; they typically begin with a message, may continue over an
extended period of time, and end when the message is considered handled.
population management workflows ✔✔focus on prevention and care management activities that
involve proactive review and
outreach to a defined population
or to individuals within that population.
phase ✔✔Phase: corresponds to the physical location of the
patient; used only if the patient changes
location during a workflow
task & action ✔✔A task is an activity that is relatively short and constitutes a discrete step in the
care
process. For example, 'measure and record vital signs' is considered a task.
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In this taxonomy, action
s are used to relate tasks to a more general typology of clinical activities.
For example, 'document' is the action associated with 'measure and record
vital signs'. Actions were based on the information available in the National Quality
Forum's "Health IT Assessment Framework for Measurement: A Consensus
sub-action ✔✔specific activities that constitute or comprise an action. Continuing the example
above, 'Document weight' is a sub
-action of 'measure & record vital signs'. The NQF Framework for Measurement was also used to
inform the subactions
CDS repositories ✔✔create tags based on the taxonomy to enable workflow-related organization
and searches
CDS designers ✔✔use the taxonomy t
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