title: Measuring change in nursing practice.
abstract: This report gives an account of the development of a method to measure the effects of changes in nursing practice for a group of patients. Staff and nurses on a 20-bed female geriatric ward were observed for a 3-day period before the 'nursing process' was gradually introduced. Two years later a second 3-day period of observation took place. Methodology is discussed in some detail and the results are presented.
mesh_terms: D000203:Activities of Daily Living; D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D005851:Geriatric Nursing; D006801:Humans; D008134:Long-Term Care; D009736:Nursing Process; D009738:Nursing Service, Hospital / Q000458:organization & administration*; D009936:Organizational Innovation