title: The Nightingale Metrics.
abstract: Staff nurses at Children's Hospital Boston worked together to identify what was important to the patients and families they cared for, measured how often nurses performed these interventions, and used the data to improve the care they provide. This initiative, the Nightingale Metric Project, can serve as a model for ongoing measurement and improvement of nursing care in all settings.
authors.affiliation: Cardiovascular and Critical Care Nursing Research, Children's Hospital Boston, Boston, MA, USA. martha.curley@childrens.harvard.edu
authors.forename: Martha A Q
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Curley
authors.forename: Patricia A
authors.initials: PA
authors.lastname: Hickey
mesh_terms: D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D001900:Boston; D015400:Clinical Nursing Research / Q000458:organization & administration*; D003422:Critical Care / Q000592:standards; D003625:Data Collection / Q000379:methods*; D004282:Documentation / Q000379:methods; D019317:Evidence-Based Medicine / Q000592:standards; D019983:Guideline Adherence / Q000592:standards; D006776:Hospitals, Pediatric / Q000592:standards; D006801:Humans; D007902:Length of Stay / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D016294:Models, Nursing; D020380:Needs Assessment; D024802:Nurse's Role; D009731:Nursing Audit; D009741:Nursing Staff, Hospital / Q000523:psychology / Q000592:standards; D010147:Pain Measurement / Q000592:standards; D018802:Patient-Centered Care / Q000592:standards*; D010371:Pediatric Nursing / Q000592:standards*; D011014:Pneumonia / Q000209:etiology / Q000517:prevention & control; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D019984:Quality Indicators, Health Care / Q000592:standards; D012121:Respiration, Artificial / Q000009:adverse effects / Q000451:nursing; D017749:Total Quality Management / Q000458:organization & administration*