title: Creating the environment necessary to ensure quality patient care in the community setting.
abstract: Quality patient care in the community setting can be challenging to community-based practice nurses. Using the combined components of structure, process, and outcome can ensure the delivery of quality patient care. This article presents a framework using the broader environment as well as the unique contributions of nurses to address the issue of quality in the community setting.
authors.forename: R W
authors.initials: RW
authors.lastname: Dahl
mesh_terms: D003152:Community Health Nursing / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006272:Health Facility Environment; D006801:Humans; D015279:Organizational Culture; D010043:Outcome and Process Assessment, Health Care; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care / Q000458:organization & administration*