AONN+ Metrics Subcommittee Co-Chairs Danelle Johnston and Tricia Strusowski suggest ways to use your metrics once you have them. Use the "gems" within your grasp and start slowly, with a focused story.
Tools that help to characterize patient acuity have been used in healthcare for decades and have proved successful as a means of determining staffing needs, improving patient care, and controlling costs.
As precision medicine testing and treatment options evolve, the complexity of what patients and caregivers need to understand to be active members of their healthcare team has increased dramatically.