A Digital Alert Feedback System (Aged Care Electronic Dashboard Information Tool, ACED-IT) to Enhance Quality Nursing Care: Participatory Action Research.

ABSTRACT:

Aims

Develop and simulate test a digital alert dashboard drawing from existing data to support nurses, care workers and managers in residential aged care.

Design

Participatory action research, co-designing for an Australian 64-bed residential site.

Methods

Qualitative data were collected through focus groups and analysed using reflective thematic analysis.

Results

Nursing-theory and evidence-based Nursing Data Domain Standards (NDDS) were developed to support internal triaging of fundamental and clinical care in a non-clinical environment. A co-designed retrospective digital alert dashboard (Aged Care Electronic Dashboard Information Tool-ACED-IT) representing the Standards was created and tested. Twenty aged care nurses, care workers and managers found it had

SUBMITTER: Bail K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12666990 | biostudies-literature | 2026 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature