'I would think that the bed count would be a reasonable guide for the staffing levels.'
I agree, this is a useful and easier to maintain number that shows the capacity of the inpatient service at a hospital, and it would be easier to check than the number of nurses. On 6/20/19, Warin <61sundow...@gmail.com> wrote: > I would think that the bed count would be a reasonable guide for the > staffing levels. > > Certainly for emergency use the number of bed would be usefull and this > should be something that can be reasonably verified. > > > > > On 20/06/19 16:13, Joseph Eisenberg wrote: >> 2) "staff_count:nurses=" >> >> *A. Source of information for this tag? >> >> How should individual mappers find out the number of nurses at a >> healthcare facility? If this information is imported from an external >> source, how can it be kept up-to-date? >> >> Most clinics in the USA do not show a list of nurses who work at the >> facility. While large hospitals may provide this information to the >> government, it may not be easy to find. >> >> Here in Indonesia there is often an organizational chart at the clinic >> which shows the staff who are supposed to work at the facility, but >> often only 1 or 2 or 0 of these staff members will actually be in the >> clinic on any given week. Sometimes they have been gone all year >> >> *B. Total staff or average number each day? >> >> Should this number be the total number of nurses employed at the >> facility or the total who are working each day? >> >> *C. RNs, CNAs, NPs, Midwives? >> >> In some countries there are many types of nurses. For example in the >> USA there are RNs (Registered Nurses), CNAs (certified nursing >> assistants), NPs (Nurse Practitioners), Nurse midwives, etc. - and >> here in Indonesia there are midwives, official nurses, and lower-level >> nursing care providers. >> >> Which of these categories is to be included in the number of nurses? >> >> -Joseph Eisenberg M.D. >> >> On 6/20/19, Mhairi O'Hara <mhairi.oh...@hotosm.org> wrote: >>> Hello Tagging Mailing List, >>> >>> We would like to bring your attention and comments on the proposal for >>> the >>> staff_count:doctors and staff_count:nurses tags, which helps identify the >>> number of doctors and nurses at a given health facility [1][2]. The >>> operational_status tag, which has been proposed before and I would like >>> to >>> highlight again, as this is used to document an observation of the >>> current >>> functional status of a mapped feature (i.e. health facility) [3]. The >>> health_amenity:type tag is also being proposed, as this indicates what >>> type >>> of speciality medical equipment is available at the health facility [4] >>> and >>> the final tag is insurance:health which describes the type of health >>> insurance accepted at a health facility [5]. >>> >>> Some of these are already in use but have never been formally accepted, >>> or >>> properly described as to how they should be applied, which we would like >>> to >>> try and achieve if possible for the Healthsites.io project. Please take a >>> look at the proposal pages on the OSM Wiki, as well as the Global >>> Healthsites Mapping Project page [2] which is at the core of the recent >>> work focused on creating a health facility data model. We look forward to >>> discussing these proposals on the respective Wiki discussion pages. >>> >>> Kind regards, >>> >>> Mhairi >>> >>> [1] >>> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Tag:staff_count:doctors >>> [2] >>> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Tag:staff_count:nurses >>> [3] >>> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Tag:operational_status >>> [4] >>> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Tag:health_amenity:type >>> [5] >>> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Tag:insurance:health >>> [6] >>> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Global_Healthsites_Mapping_Project#Tag_Proposal >>> >>> >>> > > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging > _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
