Outcomes Research: Integrating Nursing Practice Into The World View

tions are in the health professions. Practitioners of human care and treatment throughout history have tended to view the world in ways different from those in other sectors such as business and industry. In return, societies have granted honor and privilege to health care practitioners. Those differences between health care and business are diminishing. We must now account for what we do, why, what we produce and how much it costs. Analysis of the multiple factors that led to the current situation is a study in itself beyond the scope of this paper.