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Nurse Dose (nurse + dose)
Selected AbstractsNurse Dose as a ConceptJOURNAL OF NURSING SCHOLARSHIP, Issue 1 2006Dorothy Brooten Purpose: To describe the concept of Nurse Dose. Methods: The concept of nurse dose has been identified from decades of clinical research as a concept essential in the delivery of safe and high quality health care. The components of nurse dose were conceptualized through review of the literature from nursing, medicine, and health services research. Findings: Nurse dose is conceptualized as having three equally essential components: dose, nurse, and host and host response. Dose in the macro view includes the number of nurses per patient or per population in cities, states, regions, or countries. Dose in a micro view includes the amount of nurse time and the number of contacts. The nurse component consists of the education, expertise, and experience of the nurse. Host is represented by an organization and its characteristics (culture, autonomy, practice control) in a macro view and by the patient and characteristics (beliefs, values, culture) in a micro view. Host response includes response to the autonomy and acceptability of the nurse. Conclusions: Greater nurse dose has been associated with decreases in patient mortality, morbidity, and healthcare costs. [source] Nurse dose: What's in a concept?,RESEARCH IN NURSING & HEALTH, Issue 4 2008Milisa Manojlovich Abstract Many researchers have sought to address the relationship between nursing care and patient outcomes, with inconsistent and contradictory findings. We conducted a concept analysis and concept derivation, basing our work on theoretical and empirical literature, to derive nurse dose as a concept that pulls into a coherent whole disparate variables used in staffing studies. We defined nurse dose as the level of nursing reflected in the purity, amount, frequency, and duration of nursing care needed to produce favorable outcomes. All four parameters of nurse dose used together can facilitate our understanding of how nursing contributes to patient outcomes. Ongoing investigation will help to identify the parameters of nurse dose that have the greatest effect on outcomes. © 2008 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Res Nurs Health 31:310,319, 2008 [source] Nurse Dose as a ConceptJOURNAL OF NURSING SCHOLARSHIP, Issue 1 2006Dorothy Brooten Purpose: To describe the concept of Nurse Dose. Methods: The concept of nurse dose has been identified from decades of clinical research as a concept essential in the delivery of safe and high quality health care. The components of nurse dose were conceptualized through review of the literature from nursing, medicine, and health services research. Findings: Nurse dose is conceptualized as having three equally essential components: dose, nurse, and host and host response. Dose in the macro view includes the number of nurses per patient or per population in cities, states, regions, or countries. Dose in a micro view includes the amount of nurse time and the number of contacts. The nurse component consists of the education, expertise, and experience of the nurse. Host is represented by an organization and its characteristics (culture, autonomy, practice control) in a macro view and by the patient and characteristics (beliefs, values, culture) in a micro view. Host response includes response to the autonomy and acceptability of the nurse. Conclusions: Greater nurse dose has been associated with decreases in patient mortality, morbidity, and healthcare costs. [source] Nurse dose: What's in a concept?,RESEARCH IN NURSING & HEALTH, Issue 4 2008Milisa Manojlovich Abstract Many researchers have sought to address the relationship between nursing care and patient outcomes, with inconsistent and contradictory findings. We conducted a concept analysis and concept derivation, basing our work on theoretical and empirical literature, to derive nurse dose as a concept that pulls into a coherent whole disparate variables used in staffing studies. We defined nurse dose as the level of nursing reflected in the purity, amount, frequency, and duration of nursing care needed to produce favorable outcomes. All four parameters of nurse dose used together can facilitate our understanding of how nursing contributes to patient outcomes. Ongoing investigation will help to identify the parameters of nurse dose that have the greatest effect on outcomes. © 2008 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Res Nurs Health 31:310,319, 2008 [source] | ||||||||||