A sabbatical journey of discovery: aspects of nursing care delivery along the continuum of service.

Sabbatical journey of discovery: quality systems, interprofessional education and innovation.

This is the last in a series of reports to share key learnings from my 2005 sabbatical, when I took a three-month journey through Scandinavia, Western Europe, Ireland and the United Kingdom to observe innovation in nursing services delivery. This report will focus on quality systems, interprofessional education and innovation. Many of the countries I visited were doing creative work in advancin...

A sabbatical journey of discovery: patient safety.

This is the second in a series of reports to share key learnings from my sabbatical. In spring and summer of 2005, I took a three-month journey through Scandinavia, Europe, Ireland and the United Kingdom to observe innovation in nursing service delivery, in particular, nursing-led services; to explore outcome measurement as it relates to nursing services; to look at patient satisfaction and imp...

Sabbatical journey of discovery: recruitment, retention and quality of work life.

This is the fourth in a series of reports to share key learnings from my 2005 sabbatical, when I took a three-month journey through Scandinavia, Western Europe, Ireland and the United Kingdom to observe innovation in nursing services delivery. The focus of this report is recruitment, retention and quality of work life. All the countries I visited were addressing these issues to deal with the gl...

A sabbatical journey of discovery: the liberation of nursing.

مراقبت ارزش محور و ضرورت ارزیابی اقتصادی خدمات پرستاری

Economic evaluation is an invaluable and important tool in healthcare decision- and policy-making. The volume-based paradigm has been a prominent tool to evaluate healthcare economy for consecutive decades. In this approach, the main focus is on volume of treated patients alongside to reduce healthcare costs. Despite this view and during recent years, there was a dramatic rising in healthcare c...