Teaching baccalaureate nursing students to project outcomes to nursing interventions.
OBJECTIVE
To develop an innovative method of teaching baccalaureate nursing students to plan for and recognize outcomes to specific nursing interventions.


METHODS
A case study design that measured the effectiveness of a teaching innovation. Tools for students (N = 8) to use during clinical practice included an Intervention-Outcome Analysis Tool and a Nursing Clinical Outcomes Tool.


RESULTS
Quantitative and qualitative evaluation data were presented that showed growth in the ability to set and meet patient outcomes during the semester.


CONCLUSIONS
Thinking in terms of outcomes moved student beyond problem solving in their clinical thinking and assisted them to learn to develop individualized outcome statements for their patients.
Boston College School of Nursing, Chestnut Hill, MA, USA.
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Chase
D003479:Curriculum; D004508:Education, Nursing, Baccalaureate / Q000379:methods*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009732:Nursing Care / Q000592:standards*; D015402:Nursing Education Research; D017063:Outcome Assessment, Health Care; D010347:Patient Care Planning / Q000592:standards*