Identifying Nursing-Sensitive Indicators for Hospitals: A Modified Delphi Approach.

Background: Nursing-sensitive indicators (NSIs) play a crucial role in measuring the quality of care specific to nursing practice. Currently, hospitals monitor several NSIs which may vary between hospitals. Conducting research on NSIs can enhance the monitoring of nursing practice.

Exploring the gap between school of nursing theoretical foundations and clinical practice.

Background: Theoretical and practical preparation is essential for developing competent nurses. The clinical setting is the most effective context for learning nursing skills. It gives opportunities for newly qualified nurses to practice clinical decision-making by applying theoretical knowledge.

Nursing-sensitive indicators: a concept analysis.

Nursing-sensitive indicators (NSIs) are the criteria for changes in a person's health status that nursing care can directly affect, and they form the foundation for monitoring the quality of nursing care. For example, they can assist in establishing a common ground for benchmarking and in providing evidence of the cost-effectiveness of nursing care. However, despite the considerable influence of nursing interventions on the quality of healthcare, measuring the quality of nursing care and its effects on patient outcomes and healthcare systems remains challenging.

The Influence of Nursing Work Environment on Patient Safety.

: Patient safety has been a concern over the past two decades. The value of nurses and their work environment in relation to patient safety has been acknowledged by studies and international organizations. This study aimed to examine the relationship between patient safety practices and the nursing work environment.

The use of a Competence Fair to validate nursing competence.

Strategies to ensure that nursing competence is maintained and validated are of increasing importance and are much discussed in the nursing literature. Professional bodies, employers, nurses themselves and most importantly patients need to have reassurance that competence across the profession is uniform and is maintained. This is of particular concern in the increasingly globalised and multinational workforces which exist in many health care institutions.