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Measuring change in nursing practice
Author(s) -
Hawthorn Pamela J.
Publication year - 1984
Publication title -
journal of advanced nursing
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.948
H-Index - 155
eISSN - 1365-2648
pISSN - 0309-2402
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2648.1984.tb00367.x
Subject(s) - nursing , nursing practice , medline , psychology , medicine , political science , law
This report gives an account of the development of a method to measure the effects of changes in nursing practice for a group of patients. Staff and nurses on a 20‐bed female geriatric ward were observed for a 3‐day period before the ‘nursing process’ was gradually introduced. Two years later a second 3‐day period of observation took place. Methodology is discussed in some detail and the results are presented.