The purpose of this paper is to inform the nursing community of the extraordinary progress that the Canadian National Nursing Quality Report (NNQR(C)), the Canadian Health Outcomes for Better Information and Care (C-HOBIC) and the Nursing Quality Indicators for Reporting and Evaluation (NQuiRE) have made to date, and to share our commitment to continue working together to build a strong nursing...

The Nursing Process is a care technology that guides the sequence of clinical reasoning and improves the quality of care. This article reports the development of a Computerized Nursing Process (CNP) for the Intensive Care Unit. The study was conducted in three main steps: discussion and understanding of the International Organization for Standard 18104; theoretical expertise regarding the ICNP®...

Objectives Several researchers have proposed the use of logical ontologies as 'reference terminologies'. However, there are a number of unresolved issues. This article describes the development of a logical ontology for nursing interventions and presents the results of evaluation. Methods Initially this study involved the development in GRAIL of two separate experimental ontologies: an ontology...

Introduction: This paper presents a historical review of quality assurance in nursing with terminological definitions. General issues involving the evaluation of quality of care are discussed and key questions tackled. Aims: The aims of this paper were to critically discuss and analyze the essence of quality as a construct with high relevance to nursing practice. Also, to look at quality throug...

Aim: The paper explores the concepts and methods of evaluation in nursing education. Rationale: Evaluation of nursing education is a topic received much attention by the scientific community recently. The introduction and the background information of the paper highlight the theoretical endorsement of evaluation, the necessity of evaluation in education and the strenuous effort to find workable...

PURPOSE The care of a cancer patient undergoes considerable changes. Patients' most important need is a demand of support in dealing with somatic, psychological, emotional and social complaints. The purpose of this research is to analyse the realization of the psychological support of a cancer patient based on nursing care process records. MATERIAL AND METHODS The research analysis is based o...

This study analyzed the meanings of evaluation practice in competence-based nursing education through discursive practices and production of meanings in daily routine. Data were collected with a focal group composed of seven professors from a nursing program in Marília, SP, Brazil. It could be acknowledged, during data analysis, that most of the linguistic repertories refer to the traditional m...

BACKGROUND The Health Technology Assessment (HTA) approach, which provides scientific support for the decisions taken within the health field, is of increasing importance worldwide. In a context of limited resources, HTA has the potential of being an efficient tool for addressing the sustainability problems and the allocation choices arising from the constant increase in demand. AIM This stud...