title: Physical and emotional patient safety. A different look at nursing-sensitive outcomes.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: cheryl.stetler@thespa.com
authors.forename: C B
authors.initials: CB
authors.lastname: Stetler
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Morsi
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Burns
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D007407:Interviews as Topic; D009731:Nursing Audit / Q000379:methods*; D017063:Outcome Assessment, Health Care / Q000379:methods*; D011786:Quality Control; D012449:Safety