title: Odyssey of a project to improve psychogeriatric nursing care.
abstract: A grant to prepare a tool to evaluate quality of care in Israeli psychogeriatric units developed into a longitudinal project to improve care. Below, how it began as an "idea" with defined boundaries and grew into an open-ended dynamic "ideology."
authors.affiliation: Department of Nursing, Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv, Israel.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Bergman
mesh_terms: D005851:Geriatric Nursing / Q000592:standards*; D006757:Hospital Units / Q000592:standards; D006801:Humans; D007557:Israel; D008137:Longitudinal Studies; D009732:Nursing Care / Q000592:standards*; D015403:Nursing Evaluation Research; D010687:Philosophy, Nursing; D016730:Program Development; D011568:Psychiatric Nursing / Q000592:standards*; D017749:Total Quality Management / Q000458:organization & administration*