Using Word Clouds in Nursing

Word clouds can influence patient care, and help us better understand complex issues we experience in healthcare everyday. 

Here is an excerpt of an article written by me, and several of my colleagues about the influence word clouds can have...

Healthcare is experiencing intense, unprecedented reformation. The workforce is becoming increasingly diverse, dispersed, and more horizontally aligned, requiring more collaboration than competition. Leadership styles associated with improved patient outcomes, increased teamwork, and reduced medical errors are needed to change culture and transform the healthcare environment.

Word clouds, also known as tag clouds or term clouds, are an emerging technology for analyzing qualitative data. It's recommended to use word clouds as dashboards because they provide easy, quick, and meaningful analysis of qualitative data. Word clouds summarize or analyze text data and provide meaningful interpretations through text size and color. You've heard the saying, “A picture is worth a thousand words,” and this is true of word clouds as they provide a graphic and visual representation of text data relationships.

Full article can be located at: https://journals.lww.com/nursingmanagement/Fulltext/2018/10000/Using_word_clouds_to_analyze_qualitative_data_in.10.aspx 

Now, you can create your own at: https://www.wordclouds.com/ 

Until next time...