Purpose: Prescriptive and predictive analytics and artificial intelligence (AI) provide tools to analyze data with objectivity. In this paper, we provide an overview of how these techniques can improve nursing care, and we detail a quantitative model to afford managerial insights about care management in a Hospital in Colombia. Our main purpose is to provide tools to improve key performance indicators for the care management of inpatients which includes the nurse workload.Methods: The optimal nurse‐to‐patient assignment problem is addressed using analytics, lean health care, and AI. Also, we propose a new mathematical model to optimize the nurse‐to‐patient assignment decisions considering several variables about the patient state such as the Barthel index, their risks, the complexity of the care, and the mental state.Findings: Our results show that there are several processes inherent to compassionate nursing care that can be improved using technology. By using data analytics, we can also provide insights about the high variability of the care requirements and, by using models, find nurse‐to‐patient assignments that are nearly perfectly balanced.Conclusions: We illustrated this improvement with a pilot test that makes the equitable distribution of nursing workload the functionality of this strategy. The findings can be useful in highly complex hospitals in Latin America.Clinical Relevance: The proposed model presents an opportunity to make near perfectly balanced nurse‐to‐patient assignments according to the number of patients and their health conditions using technology.

Objetivo. Desarrollar un modelo para la práctica de cuidado que permita mejorar de forma continua el cuidado de enfermería en el Hospital Universitario Fundación Santa Fe de Bogotá (FSFB). Materiales y método. Estudio desarrollado por fases secuenciales que incluyó: 1) Identificación de la necesidad de contar con un modelo de cuidado para la práctica, 2) Caracterización del contexto y del escenario deseado; 3) Revisión de literatura; 4) Descripción del modelo; 5) Validación. Resultados. Las tendencias globales en el uso de modelos de enfermería en la práctica clínica reconoce aspectos comunes y enfatiza la pertinencia, metodologías y diversos roles en la implementación. El contexto y proyección de excelencia para enfermería en la FSFB requieren la orientación de un modelo para la práctica que oriente el cuidado y que responda a la vocación de servicio centrado en la experiencia de la salud humana. Conclusión. El modelo de la práctica “Cuidado de enfermería con enfoque humano”, permite comprender y comunicar lo esencial de la práctica enfermería en el ámbito del hospital universitario FSFB, para cualificar dicha práctica de manera permanente.

Objetivo: analizar los diferentes enfoques para abordar la carga del cuidado en la enfermedad crónica no transmisible (ECNT). Materiales y métodos: con base en una revisión de literatura en las bases de datos: CINAHL, Ovid, Scielo, Medline y Psychoinfo, bajo los descriptores carga, impacto, costos, en combinación con enfermedad crónica y cuidado, con su respectiva traducción al inglés, se identificaron y analizaron los elementos estudiados como carga del cuidado de la ECNT. Resultados: la carga del cuidado en la ECNT es un constructo multidimensional que incluye la perspectiva epidemiológica (relación con la frecuencia y valoración de consecuencias en años de vida y pérdidas funcionales), la económica (impacto sobre consumo, ahorro, oferta de mano de obra, productividad y acumulación de capital humano) y la social (factores de desgaste, estrés, impacto familiar, limitación social y aspectos positivos de la experiencia), con múltiples interrelaciones entre sí. Conclusión: se requiere una mirada integral para examinar la carga del cuidado en la ECNT que incluya los actores sociales afectados: pacientes, cuidadores familiares, familias, profesionales e instituciones de salud.

Objective. To describe the construction and validation process of a Model of professional practice of school nursing for Colombia. Methods. Study under the approach of "methodological research in nursing" carried out by the Colombian network of school nursing, with the participation of 26 nurses from different institutions in a research developed in three stages: revision of antecedents, identification and prioritizing of assumptions to construct the model, and validation of the preliminary proposal with the participants and with a group of experts. Results. The study presents the components that were part of the construction of the model of professional practice of school nursing for Colombia, which includes the four meta-paradigmatic elements of this professional discipline: the receptor of care, the context, nursing, and health, as well as the prioritized assumptions that indicate how these elements interact in achieving the student ' s wellbeing and that of the education community. It includes the report from a focal validation group with the participants in which they summarize as education and health: a care bond, and the concept by experts on such. Conclusion. The Model of professional practice of school nursing for Colombia: education and health: a care bond, constructed in participative manner with nurses experts in the field and validated with theoretical experts complies with the international guides for the design of this type of theoretical construction and permits guiding the care goals of students, maintain the autonomy of the nurses and their interprofessional participation in this field.

Commitment and human tone: the difference between traditional service and nursing care