Giving Compass' Take:

• This Médecins sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) post details the efforts of pediatric nurses in Bangladesh, who are tracking their work through a smartphone app.

• How might we able to use data in a more comprehensive way when it comes to humanitarian aid?

• Here's more about what life is like at refugee camps in Bangladesh.

And we’re off! It’s official, the pilot project [using smart phones to track the work of MSF pediatric nurses in Bangladesh] is complete and no more changes can be made to the smartphone app. The nurses who are participating in the project are now used to recording all their activities in the app and luckily are still enthusiastic, and so the roll-out begins.

Fingers crossed the data we collect over the next four weeks will show us what a day in the life of a humanitarian nursing team consists of. We’re hoping to develop a really complete picture, which we can then feed into ideas about safe nursing levels in humanitarian settings such as refugee camps.

Problems with the delivery of care are rarely the fault of the nurse, but instead the systems and resources they are working with.

We’re going to be working with the same nurses who were involved in the pilot project: the teams from two pediatric wards in an MSF hospital in Kutupalong, Bangladesh. Kutupalong is the site of a refugee settlement that’s currently home to around 900,000 people.

Now that we have the app organized, I can start to focus on other aspects of data collection, to ensure we really understand how nurses here look after the patients.

Read the full article about tracking the work of pediatric nurses in Bangladesh by Josie Gilday at Doctors Without Borders.