Measurement of nursing outcomes

This is a compendium of over 30 tools for the measurement of professional and educational outcomes in nursing. It is a second edition of the award winning series of books on measuring outcomes in nursing.

The tools and methods are presented with attention to purpose and utility, conceptual basis, development, testing, and reliability and validity assessments. Major topic areas focus on clinical decision making and performance in education and practice, student outcomes, and research. In most cases the complete measurement instrument is included in the book.

• Part I Measuring clinical decision making and performance in education and practice
• Diagnostic reasoning simulations and instruments
• Clinical decision making in nursing scale
• Creativity in the application of the nursing process tool
• Measuring clinical judgement in home health nursing
• Postpartum caseload
• Priority-setting instrument
• Performance appraisal tool (revised)
• Measuring clinical decision making using a clinical simulation film
• Clinical performance examination for critical care nurses
• Clinical performance measure
• Measuring quality of nursing care for DRGs using NEW - Medicus nursing process
• Methodology
• Clinical evaluation tool
• Clinical competence rating scale
• Clinical evaluation tool
• Measuring RN students' clinical skills via computer
• Influence of review course preparation on NCLEX-RN scores
• Influence of English language on ability to pass the NCLEX-RN
• Criterion-related validity of the NCLEX-RN
• Self assessment leadership instrument
• Evaluation of learning according to objectives tool
• Student stress and coping inventory
• Faculty role preparation self assessment scale
• Assertiveness behaviour inventory tools
• Part II Measuring professionalism
• Nursing activity scale
• Nursing care role orientation scale
• Justification of moral judgement and action tool
• Reliability and validity of the nursing role, conceptions instrument
• Attitudes towards physically disabled college students
• Organizational climate descriptive questionnaire (modified)
• Blaney/Hobson nursing attitude scale
• Part III Research and evaluation
• Research appraisal checklist
• Knowledge of research consumerism instrument
• A programme evaluation model for continuing education programmes
• Opinionnaire - computing in nursing
• Software evaluation tool