Nurse-sensitive outcomes in district nursing care: A Delphi study.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To determine nurse-sensitive outcomes in district nursing care for community-living older people. Nurse-sensitive outcomes are defined as patient outcomes that are relevant based on nurses' scope and domain of practice and that are influenced by nursing inputs and interventions.

Design

A Delphi study following the RAND/UCLA Appropriateness Method with two rounds of data collection.

Setting

District nursing care in the community care setting in the Netherlands.

Participants

Experts with current or recent clinical experience as district nurses as well as expertise in research, teaching, practice, or policy in the area of district nursing.

Main outcome measures

Experts assessed potential nurse-sensitive outcomes for their sensitivity to nursing c

SUBMITTER: Veldhuizen JD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8118269 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature