| Title | Nursing: key to quality improvement. | | Author(s) | Lacey SR, Cox KS | | Institution | Bi-State Nursing Workforce Innovation Center, UMKC School of Nursing, 2464 Charlotte Street, Room 3413, Kansas City, MO 64108, USA. srlacey@cmh.edu | | Source | Pediatr Clin North Am 2009 Aug; 56(4):975-85. | | MeSH | Adult
Child
Education, Nursing
Health Manpower
Hospitals, Pediatric
Humans
Licensure, Nursing
Nurse's Role
Nurse-Patient Relations
Nursing Evaluation Research
Nursing Research
Outcome and Process Assessment (Health Care)
Patient Care Team
Pediatric Nursing
Quality Assurance, Health Care
Quality Indicators, Health Care
Quality of Health Care
United States
| | Abstract | Nurses and effective nursing care contribute to quality patient outcomes. This article explains in detail the importance of nursing care in the quality agenda and explores the existing gaps in this field of science. Key stakeholders and groups that advocate and focus on specific quality agendas within the field of pediatrics are briefly described. Pediatric health care uses a multidisciplinary model of delivery; each discipline uses specific domains of knowledge and interventions, making it difficult to separate them when evaluating patient outcomes. Much work needs to be conducted using health services research approaches that link and partition the overall and combined contribution of discipline-specific providers. | | Language | eng | | Pub Type(s) | Journal Article
| | PubMed ID | 19660639 |
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