Field testing the nursing quality monitoring methodology: phase II.
The design, analysis, and findings of a field test of a methodology for monitoring quality of nursing care are presented. Quality care scores for types of patients (self-care, partial care, complete care, intensive care), types of units (medical, surgical, medical-surgical, pediatric, and intensive care), and shifts (day, evening, and night) showed the method to be useful.
D007362:Intensive Care Units; D007388:Internal Medicine; D008722:Methods; D009730:Nursing Assessment; D009731:Nursing Audit; D009732:Nursing Care / Q000592:standards*; D010347:Patient Care Planning; D010371:Pediatric Nursing; D013527:Perioperative Nursing; D011383:Progressive Patient Care