Measurement in Family Nursing

International Family Nursing Association: family nursing practice survey findings.

The measurement of nursing intensity

At this stage in the development of diagnosis-related groups (DRG's), there is an imperfect record of the value and amount of nursing resources used by individual patients during a single hospital stay. Previous attempts to isolate the costs of nursing care in relationship to DRG's are reviewed. A research strategy to attain such relative measurements is proposed. Such inquiries are necessary i...

Family Nursing Game: Developing a board game Family Nursing Game: Desenvolvendo um jogo de tabuleiro sobre Família Family Nursing Game: Desarrollando un juego de tablero sobre la familia

Some nurses in Portugal still have no training on family nursing and their professional practice is only based on their personal experience as a member of a family. The aim of this study is to describe the development of an educational tool, a board game called "Family Nursing Game", which was developed, tested and validated for nurses learning the content of family nursing within a hospital co...

Family nursing research, theory and practice.

The absence of critical dialogue regarding what constitutes family nursing prevents the further development of the specialty area of family nursing. In this essay, the author issues nine challenges faced by those who would contribute to the development of family nursing.

Family satisfaction with nursing facility care.

BACKGROUND We present the psychometric properties of our nursing facility family satisfaction questionnaire (NF-FSQ), and the steps used to develop this instrument. METHODS Family members from 14 nursing facilities in Pennsylvania were mailed the NF-FSQ. Factor analyses were used to test the extent to which the items in each domain represented the same underlying construct. To further report ...