title: Beyond the acute care setting: community-based nonacute care nursing-sensitive indicators.
abstract: In 1994, concerns about the effects of hospital restructuring on patient care resulted in the American Nurses Association (ANA) undertaking a major, long-term initiative. Nursing's Safety & Quality Initiative (the Initiative) was designed to measure the impact of such changes on patient care. The Initiative has three major foci: research, continuing education, and legislation/policy. This article addresses a recent development in the research component of the Initiative, involving the identification of nursing-sensitive indicators for community-based nonacute care.
authors.affiliation: prowell@ana.org
authors.forename: P A
authors.initials: PA
authors.lastname: Rowell
mesh_terms: D003152:Community Health Nursing / Q000592:standards*; D006801:Humans; D015399:Nursing Research / Q000379:methods* / Q000592:standards; D010865:Pilot Projects; D019984:Quality Indicators, Health Care / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D012956:Societies, Nursing; D014481:United States