title: Developing a plan to evaluate the use of nursing conceptual frameworks.
abstract: Five hospitals in the Metropolitan Toronto area have introduced a nursing conceptual framework as the basis of practice in their agencies. A research team representing the hospitals and the University of Toronto has developed a comprehensive plan to evaluate the impact of using a nursing framework on nursing practice. This paper describes the selection of variables to be studied and the ways selected to measure them. A series of papers will follow describing the establishment of psychometric properties of the instruments and the results of the pre-test phase. Although this paper describes a process that began some time in the past, the authors have kept current the literature on the subject and the most current references are included in this paper.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Fitch
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Rogers
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Ross
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Shea
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Smith
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Tucker
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D008137:Longitudinal Studies; D016294:Models, Nursing; D009732:Nursing Care / Q000458:organization & administration / Q000592:standards*; D015403:Nursing Evaluation Research / Q000379:methods*; D009936:Organizational Innovation; D010934:Planning Techniques