Empowering nurses. Patient satisfaction with primary nursing in home health.
Responsibility, accountability, and authority are the tools of primary nursing that enable nurses to impact patient care. It is important to determine if nurses empowered by a primary nursing care delivery system can positively influence patient outcomes. The authors describe an outcome audit conducted to study patient satisfaction with nursing care, one indicator of quality patient care.
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Home Nursing Agency, Altoona, PA.
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D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D003152:Community Health Nursing; D005568:Forms and Records Control; D006699:Home Care Services / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D007407:Interviews as Topic; D009726:Nurses; D017060:Patient Satisfaction; D010414:Pennsylvania; D011209:Power, Psychological; D011321:Primary Nursing; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires