Interdisciplinary units, such as the Standard Care department, were established with the main objective of nursing patients treated by different clinics.
Our study did not include a cost analysis of the presented technique, taking in mind higher costs for the heparin-grafted dialyzer membrane and dialysate compared to regular ones, neither an objective parameter of nursing workload or ease-of-use of this technique.
Further education and professional progress rank highest among the professional objectives of the nurses and doctors interviewed in Kenya and Benin.
However, further research is needed to assess the impact of moonlighting and agency nursing on more objective measures of nurse performance and ultimately on patient outcomes.
To introduce the use of a balanced scorecard for the management and follow-up of quality objectives in nursing care.
This study describes the design and students' response to an interactive web-based course using streaming video technology tailored to students' needs and the course objectives of the fundamentals of nursing skills clinical course.
The primary objective of migrant nurse respondents – regardless of age or marital status – was to achieve stability for themselves and their families, specifically for their children and for their parents.
The major advantage of all these scoring systems is that they are an objective and reproducible measure of nursing workload related to the various activities performed in the ICU, without considering the appropriateness of standing policies of medical care.
Regarding quality control, we found that the ratios of care monitoring among staff and control of staff objectives by nurse managers were higher in profitable agencies than in stable and unprofitable agencies (p = .02; p < .001, respectively).
To this end an evaluation matrix was developed integrating the American Association Colleges of Nursing BSN competencies and course objectives from a United States college of nursing baccalaureate program.
Regarding quality control and regional cooperation, we found that agencies which regularly conduct care monitoring among staff and allow control of staff objectives by nurse managers, as well as agencies involved in external lectures for the health-care professionals in the community, would be profitable.
