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Documenting the Effect and Cost of Public Health Nursing Field Services
Author(s) -
Oda Dorothy S.,
Boyd Peggy
Publication year - 1987
Publication title -
public health nursing
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.471
H-Index - 55
eISSN - 1525-1446
pISSN - 0737-1209
DOI - 10.1111/j.1525-1446.1987.tb00536.x
Subject(s) - nursing , bureaucracy , public health nursing , public health , limiting , psychological intervention , health services , service (business) , business , medicine , environmental health , political science , politics , population , engineering , marketing , law , mechanical engineering
With the current economic trend toward limiting programs, public health nurses must define their services and examine the cost effectiveness of their actions or interventions to maintain fiscal support. Prevention‐oriented field nursing service is difficult to measure in relation to outcome and cost due to its qualitative nature and location in bureaucratic systems. The experience of a pilot study involving public health nurse activity in a federal preventive health program for children suggested steps for documentating impact and costs.