Nursing-sensitive outcome reliability testing in a tertiary care setting.

Purpose: To describe nursing outcomes classification (NOC) that are most relevant for, specialty acute care nursing practice, and to assess the adequacy of measures.

Methods: Data were collected on 434 patients during the 14-month data collection period at a tertiary care center: cardiac surgery intensive care (n = 76), cardiac transplant unit (n = 153), and medical unit (n = 205).

Findings: Thirty-six NOC outcomes were used 10 or more times during the study.