Health care delivery competence and accountability have typically been defined from providers' perspectives, rather than those of consumers as purchasers of services. In 1999, in the face of broad public concern about nursing competence the Alabama Board of Nursing developed an accountability model that established consumers at the center of the model and placed accountability for competent nur...

The Roy Adaptation Model has provided a framework for nursing practice, education, and research for more than 20 years. This article focuses on the model's contribution to nursing practice. Adaptation, the goal of the model, serves as an effective guide for planning care for the client with quadriplegia. A case study is used to show the effectiveness of using the nursing process within the guid...

PURPOSE The aim of this study was to analyze net income of a surgical nursing ward in a general hospital. METHOD Data collection and analysis was conducted using a performance-based costing and activity-based costing method. RESULT Direct nursing activities in the surgical ward were 68, indirect nursing activities were 10. The total cost volume of the surgical ward was calculated at won 119...

Recent investigations have tested the applicability of various terminology models for the representing nursing concepts including those related to nursing diagnoses, nursing interventions, and standardized nursing assessments as a prerequisite for building a reference terminology that supports the nursing domain. We used the semantic structure of Clinical LOINC (Logical Observations, Identifier...

Over 1 million working registered nurses (RNs) currently do not have a bachelor's degree in nursing and comprise the critical group needing to return to school in order to achieve the Institute of Medicine's goal of 80% bachelors of science in nursing (BSNs) by 2020. Western Governors University (WGU) has developed a transformative educational model, incorporating 4 operational pillars (compete...

This Korean study replicated a previously published American study. The conceptual framework and method combined ethical enquiry and phenomenology. The research questions were: (1) What is nursing students' experience of ethical problems involving nursing practice? and, (2) What is nursing students' experience of using an ethical decision-making model? The participants were 97 senior baccalaure...

AIM to analyze whether the nursing process method is used at public and private centers in the health area Gipuzkoa (Basque Country) and, if yes, to analyze in the framework of which model and how it is used. METHOD cross-sectional study, based on the analysis of the nursing records used at the 158 centers studied. RESULTS the nursing process is applied at 98% of the centers. It is applied ...