Discovering the value of nursing in high-technology environments: outcomes revisited.
The article argues that the current approach to specifying outcomes of nursing care in high-technology environments obscures rather than illuminates nursing's contributions to health care. Two nursing situations are used to illustrate a reframing of the idea of outcomes from the perspective and language of nursing as caring. Outcomes of nursing care are reconceptualized as value experienced within the nursing situation.
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Cora S. Balmat School of Nursing, Alcorn State University, Natchez, Mississippi, USA.
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D001294:Attitude to Health; D004645:Empathy; D006801:Humans; D013677:Medical Laboratory Science; D016294:Models, Nursing; D009723:Nurse-Patient Relations; D009732:Nursing Care / Q000523:psychology / Q000592:standards*; D009742:Nursing Theory; D017063:Outcome Assessment, Health Care