A discipline‐specific determination of high quality nursing care

Abstract

Patient outcomes are the product of the service nurses deliver and are appropriate as defining criteria only when care is being evaluated from the patient's perspective. Defining quality from the nursing profession's frame of reference focuses on evaluating the services provided; that is, nursing actions and behaviours, linked to the use of nursing knowledge. High quality nursing equates with competence in the cognitive, affective, and psychomotor domains.

Quality nursing care for hospitalized patients with advanced illness: Concept development

“…Despite the frequent use of the term quality in the nursing literature reviewed, the term lacked clear definition and explicit criteria (Attree, 1993; Gunther & Alligood, 2002; Lynn et al, 2007). Quality was thought to be complex and multidimensional, but what it meant varied depending on the context (Chance, 1980; Currie, Harvey, West, McKenna, & Keeney, 2005).…”

vChanging Student Nurses Values, Attitudes, and Behaviours: A Meta Ethnography of Enrichment Activities

“…Attitudes and values of nursing have been clearly defined in the literature with reference to nurses demonstrating behaviours such as empathy, dedication, tact, commitment, compassion, care, competence, communication, courage, and humility [4]. Promoting these values, attitudes, and behaviours are important as caring is the central tenant of nursing [5], society demands it [6], and regular assessment of values, attitudes, and behaviour is essential in helping students develop clinical and professional competence.…”

“…So that during their day to day work they demonstrate empathy, dedication, tact, commitment, compassion, care, competence, communication, courage, and humility [4]. Ensuring that Type I, II and III enrichment activities are based around cultural encounters are methods that can help do this, as these experiences confirm, explain, alter, and even contradict a student's philosophies [52].…”

An evaluation of the quality of nursing care in orthopaedic units

“…Quality may be defined as characteristics of the setting in which nursing care is given, as types of processes and activities that nurses engage in when giving care to patients (cited from Chance, 1997). Evaluating the quality of nursing care from the profession's perspective involves services provided, that is, nursing processes and activities (Gunther and Alligood, 2002).…”