Nursing resources and responsibilities according to hospital organizational model for management of inflammatory bowel disease in Spain

Abstract

Nurses have more resources and responsibilities the more complete is the organizational model for IBD management. Development of these areas may improve patient outcomes.

Development of quality standards in inflammatory bowel disease management and design of an evaluation tool of nursing care

“…Results of an earlier survey identified both the responsibilities fulfilled by nurses as well as the resources available for the nursing management of IBD in Spain. Among the main findings, significant effects different nursing organizational structures have on IBD patients' outcomes were reported (13). The paucity of similar instruments calls for the development of tools such as the NCQ-IBD to facilitate assessing current nursing management approaches to IBD care.…”

“…A previous study, specifically designed for Gastroenterology clinical centers, investigated different organizational models of nursing management of IBD in Spain, including responsibilities and resources available to IBD-specialized nursing. The findings of this 2009 survey showed significant heterogeneity regarding health care organizational nursing models for IBD and the impact on patients (13). Based on these findings, the research project described here was designed with two main objectives: First, to devel-op standards of quality to homogenize IBD nursing care; and second, based on said standards, to design a tool to evaluate the nursing care quality in IBD (NCQ-IBD).…”