Projects
1. The N-CODES Project
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Team Members : Paul Fortier (ECE), Nancy Dluhy (Nursing), Theophano Mitsa (ECE). Past members include Eileen O´Neill (Nursing), Howard Michel (ECE).
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Project Description : N-CODES is a collaborative research project between the ECE and Nursing Departments at UMASS-Dartmouth for the development of a wireless, point-of-care, cleent-centric system for novice nurse education and use in acute care settings.
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Peer reviewed articles & Papers
- O´Neill, E., Dluhy, NM, Hansen, A., Ryan, J. (2006). Coupling the N-CODES system with actual nurse decision-making. CIN: Computers, Informatics, Nursing, 24(1), 28-34.
- O´Neill, E., Dluhy, NM, & Chin, E. (2005). Modeling novice nurse clinical decision-making. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 49(1), 68-77.
- O´Neill, E, & Dluhy, NM (May, 2004) Knowledge adquisition, synthesis and validation: A model for decision support systems. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 47(2), 134-142.
- O´Neill, ES, & Dluhy, NM (2000). Utility of structured care approaches in education and clinical practice. Nursing Outlook, 48(3), 132-135.
- O´Neill, ES., Dluhy, NM., Chin, E., Sosa, MB. (2006) Symposium: The N-CODES Project: Interdisciplinary Strategies to Develop a Comprehensive Decision Support System (CDSS) at Eastern Nursing Research Scientific Sessions, Philadelphia: PA. (published abstracts)
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Refereed Conference Publications
- Mitsa, T., Lin, K., Using Feature Predictive Power as a Guide for the Clinical Decision Making Process, International Conference on Information and Knowledge Engineering, Las Vegas, Nevada, 2006.
- Fortier, P., Michel, H., DLUHY, N., O´Neill, E., (2004) Hand-held Remote Decision Support Aid for the Novice Nurse, 10th ACM SIGKDD Conference, Seattle WA, August 22 - 25, 2004
- Fortier, P., Michel, H., DLUHY, N., O´Neill, E., (2004) Computerized Decision Support Aid for the Acute Care Novice Nurse, Proceedings of the 38th Hawaiian International Conference on Systems Sciences (CD/ROM), January 3 - 6, 2005, Computer Society Press, 2004.
- Fortier, P., Michel, H., DLUHY, N., O´Neill, E., (2004) Computerized Decision Support Aid for the Acute Care Novice Nurse, Proceedings of the International Association for Development of the Information Society, Avila Spain, July 2004, accepted for publication
- Michel, H. E., Fortier, P. J., DLUHY, N. M., O´Neill, E. S., (2004) N-Codes: A Computerized Decision Support System for Acute Care Nursing, The 2004 International Conference on Information and Knowledge Engineering, June 21 - 24, 2004, accepted for publication
- Fortier, P., Jagannathan, S., Michel, H., DLUHY, N., O´Neill, E., (2003) Development of a Hand-held Real-time Decision Support Aid for Critical Care Nursing, Proceedings of the 36th Hawaiian International Conference on Systems Sciences (CD/ROM), January 6 - 9, 2003, Computer Society Press, 2002, 9 pages
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Individual papers in Symposium
- The N-CODES Project Overview: Eileen O´Neill, PhD, RN.
- Validating Nursing Science: Conceptual Models in Informatics Development: Nancy M. Dluhy, PhD, RN
- The N-CODES Project: An Innovative Process in Knowledge Development: *Elizabeth Chin, MS, RN, ANP
- Theory to Application: Testing the N-CODES Program: *Mary-Elizabeth Sosa, BSN, RN
- DLUHY, NM, O´Neill, ES, Fortier, P, Michel, H. (Nov., 2003). Uncovering, evaluating and assimilating evidence: A model for decision support systems. Sigma Theta Tau International, Biennial Convention, Clinical Sessions, Toronto.
- O´Neill, ES, DLUHY, NM, Fortier, P, Michel, H. (April, 2003). Knowledge acquisition, synthesis, and validation: A model for decision support systems. The Nursing Informatics Conference, Rutgers University, Florida (presented by E. O´Neill)
