title: Developing measures of pediatric nursing quality.
abstract: Recent research has highlighted the impact of nursing care on patient outcomes. The link to staffing has also been documented for selected conditions. To date, efforts to establish nurse-sensitive measures have focused largely on adults. This article describes the project undertaken to select and pilot 2 pediatric indicators of nursing quality care to be included in an ongoing national benchmarking program.
authors.affiliation: University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA. laceys@uab.edu
authors.forename: Susan R
authors.initials: SR
authors.lastname: Lacey
authors.forename: Susan F
authors.initials: SF
authors.lastname: Klaus
authors.forename: Janis B
authors.initials: JB
authors.lastname: Smith
authors.forename: Karen S
authors.initials: KS
authors.lastname: Cox
authors.forename: Nancy E
authors.initials: NE
authors.lastname: Dunton
mesh_terms: D000575:American Nurses' Association; D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D002406:Catheterization, Peripheral / Q000009:adverse effects; D003625:Data Collection / Q000379:methods / Q000592:standards; D016208:Databases, Factual; D005119:Extravasation of Diagnostic and Therapeutic Materials / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000209:etiology; D017144:Focus Groups; D006301:Health Services Needs and Demand; D006801:Humans; D007262:Infusions, Intravenous / Q000009:adverse effects; D015403:Nursing Evaluation Research / Q000458:organization & administration*; D015404:Nursing Methodology Research; D017063:Outcome Assessment, Health Care / Q000458:organization & administration*; D010146:Pain / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000517:prevention & control; D010147:Pain Measurement / Q000592:standards; D010371:Pediatric Nursing / Q000592:standards*; D010865:Pilot Projects; D019984:Quality Indicators, Health Care / Q000592:standards*; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014481:United States / Q000453:epidemiology