title: Determining quality in a unit where nursing is the primary intervention.
abstract: Determining quality in a unit where nursing is the primary intervention This paper discusses the use of a variety of quantitative and qualitative methods of measuring quality in a nursing unit. It reports the result of comparing the quality of nursing care between patients admitted to the nursing unit concerned (in Oxford, England) following admission to an acute ward, with patients who spent the whole of their hospitalization in an acute ward. The findings suggest that quality can be best assessed by using a number of methods, and the quality of nursing care delivered in a unit which focuses on therapeutic nursing is significantly and consistently higher than that delivered in acute hospital wards.
authors.affiliation: School of Nursing, Deakin University, Victoria, Australia.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Pearson
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Durant
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Punton
mesh_terms: D000203:Activities of Daily Living; D000368:Aged; D003258:Consumer Behavior; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D009731:Nursing Audit; D015399:Nursing Research; D011321:Primary Nursing / Q000592:standards*; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care; D011787:Quality of Health Care; D011788:Quality of Life