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Challenges in Assessing the Impact of Nursing Service: A Community Perspective
Author(s) -
Goeppinger Jean
Publication year - 1988
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.1525-1446.1988.tb00732.x
Subject(s) - nursing , perspective (graphical) , confusion , community nursing , service (business) , community health , nursing research , medicine , psychology , public health , business , computer science , marketing , artificial intelligence , psychoanalysis
Assessing the impact of community nursing services is critically important. It is, however, problematic. Difficulties, some germane to the general assessment of the impact of nursing service and others specific to community‐oriented nursing practice, include confusion about the domain of community health nursing, inadequate definition of key concepts, inappropriate competition among research methodologies, unpredictable collegial and financial support, and inattention to the dissemination of research findings in practice environments.