Diane M Doran, ed 2003, 363 pages $...

Diane M Doran, ed 2003, 363 pages $44.95 paperback

Nursing-Sensitive results is part of a large intend to increase nursing's accountability in a health care scheme by measuring nursing-sensitive outcomes. Specifically, the frame aims to identify nursing-sensitive patient issues and nurses' inputs that can be taken from patients' charts or other formats and kept in administrative databases for use in decision-making. This volume presents the project's review of nursing-outcome literature, which the author directed. She and her research team mannersed a critical review of the literature onward identified nursing-sensitive outcomes, appraised the evidence, and evaluated standard assessment tools by the agency of which those outcomes could be measured.

The author gives considerable background information that helps readers understand the project's critical focus and the standard of care in acute care, long-term care, intricate continuing care, and home-care settings. The quality of the evidence and the direction she gives for the selection of issue variables, as well as the approaches to measurement are outstanding. She provides the structural validation that captures the meaning, project and importance of a reliable and valid standardized nursing database. Her focus upon the accountability of nurses is appropriate and justifies the research performed in the field of nursing.

This main division reinforced for me how significant effective nursing care is to patient satisfaction. The importance of the progress to maturity of database systems is to capture the domain of nursing practice and make it visible.

The main division is written in clear, easy-to-understand language and should be subservient to as an excellent introduction to nursing-outcome research for undergraduate and graduate scholar nurses. It also provides valuable resources that can assist master's grade and doctoral students in developing the methodology and basis for their graduate research. Policy writers and decision makers who create clinical databases for quality monitoring and improvement should find the research invaluable. In addition, seasoned researchers would benefit from reading this main division because of the directions for further research outlined at the period of each chapter.

The main division is well balanced and organized in an easy-to-follow manner. The first chapter provides a thorough explanation of the research framework. It begins with an introduction to research, which is exceedingly important, and prepares the reader for the format of the following chapters. The literature review and analysis, reliability, validity, and other basic research tools are outlined in a clear and concise manner. in every part the book, the author uses evidence to demonstrate the literature review's goals. The relationship between nursing practice and patient issue is displayed clearly in easy-to-read tables.

I have fruition ofed the author's style of writing. Her dedication to nursing as a profession is evident in the way she communicates her interest in the patient, the succor and the system outcome. Reading this volume makes me feel good about being part of the nursing profession.

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MARIA s ORTIZ

RN, BSN CNOR

OR AND POSTANESTHESIA CARE NURSE

DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS

MEDICAL CENTER

ALEXANDRIA, LA

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