Physical and emotional patient safety. A different look at nursing-sensitive outcomes.
Data on nursing-sensitive outcomes, beyond traditional isolated indicators such as pressure ulcers, are often unavailable for nurses to evaluate the overall quality of their care. This article describes a quality improvement effort to provide nurses with both a positive and a negative patient outcomes score. The approach can make visible the often invisible role of nurses in the growing field of patient safety.
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D006801:Humans; D007407:Interviews as Topic; D009731:Nursing Audit / Q000379:methods*; D017063:Outcome Assessment, Health Care / Q000379:methods*; D011786:Quality Control; D012449:Safety