Development of an operating room nursing workload measurement system
Friedberg, E.; O'Reilly, L.; Theriault, J.A.
Canadian Operating Room Nursing Journal 10(2): 7-10
1992
ISSN/ISBN: 0712-6778 PMID: 1623439 Document Number: 3980
After the Ottawa General Hospital became one of the test sites for the Canadian MIS Project in 1985, we began to introduce retrospective "Workload Measurement Systems" (WLMS) in nursing and diagnostic service departments. At this time Specialty unit WLM systems, inclusive of the Operating Room system, were in developmental stages. We decided to proceed with the systems implementation program, assuring compliance with retrospective requirements. An important factor in play at this point was that we had recently obtained approval to proceed with the introduction of an Operating Room (OR) computerized Scheduling System. In developing the functional requirements for the selection of scheduling system software, we clearly defined a necessity for a system with architecture which was sufficiently flexible to permit inclusion an OR WLMS. This article is a description of the development of a WLMS in conjunction with the 1990 implementation of an automated Operating Room Scheduling System .
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