title: Correlating nursing care, nursing practice, and nursing performance standards.
abstract: All too often nursing standards have been viewed as a cumbersome paperwork task with little day-to-day practical relevance. Using a matrix approach that incorporates nursing role functions and the nursing process, the authors developed a model that provides the basis for job descriptions, performance appraisals, peer review, and quality management activities.
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Kane
authors.forename: B J
authors.initials: BJ
authors.lastname: Fickley
mesh_terms: D004650:Employee Performance Appraisal / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D007587:Job Description; D016294:Models, Nursing; D009732:Nursing Care / Q000379:methods / Q000592:standards*; D010380:Peer Review; D011364:Professional Practice / Q000592:standards*; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care / Q000458:organization & administration*