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The demand for measuring the impact of nursing interventions: a community perspective
Author(s) -
BARRIBALL K. LOUISE,
MACKENZIE ANN
Publication year - 1992
Publication title -
journal of clinical nursing
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.94
H-Index - 102
eISSN - 1365-2702
pISSN - 0962-1067
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2702.1992.tb00100.x
Subject(s) - nursing , perspective (graphical) , psychological intervention , community health , health care , quality (philosophy) , population , medicine , population health , competition (biology) , psychology , environmental health , public health , political science , ecology , philosophy , epistemology , artificial intelligence , computer science , law , biology
Summary• There has not been a more appropriate time for nurses working in the community to measure their efficiency and effectiveness. The manner in which health‐care services are delivered to the community and the quality of these services are being carefully scrutinized. • Changes in community health services have seen the emergence of nurses practising in innovative and varying ways to meet the health needs of the population, and it is vital in the competition for resources that they measure the impact of such practice upon the health status of the population. • The evidence suggests, however, that few nurses working to an advanced level have measured their effectiveness, highlighting the need for empirically based research.