Nursing Outcomes Classification

PART I: Chapter 1 Outcome Development and Significance. Outcome Development in Health Care, Outcome Development in Nursing, Current Outcome Evaluation, Reasons for Standardised Outcomes for Nursing, Creation of a Common Nursing Language, Computerised Nursing Information Systems, Uniform Nursing Data Sets, National Data Sets, Evaluation of Nursing Care Quality, Evaluation of Nursing Innovations, Contribution to Knowledge Development, Summary. Chapter 2: Overview of the Nursing-Sensitive Patient Outcomes (NOC) Research. Purposes and Significance of the Research, Preliminary Work Related to NOC Pilot Studies of Patient Satisfaction Outcomes, Development of NOC Research Team, Resolution of Issues and Development of the Initial List of Outcomes, Identification and Resolution of Conceptual and Methodological Issues, Who is the patient, What do patient outcomes describe, At what levels of abstraction should outcomes be developed, How are the outcomes labelled, What are nursing-sensitive patient outcomes, Are nursing-sensitive patient outcomes the resolution of nursing diagnoses, When should patient outcomes be measured, Methodological Issues and Strategies, What strategies were used, What sources were used to sample outcome statements, What criteria were used to select the sources from which outcome statements were extracted, How are nursing-sensitive outcomes and indicators validated, What methods will be used to develop the classification structure, Development of the Initial List of Nursing-Sensitive Patient Outcomes and Indicators, Validation, Field Testing, and Classification of the Initial List of Outcomes, Refinement oft he Initial List of Nursing-Sensitive Outcomes and Indicators, Field Testing and Classification of the List of Outcomes and Indicators, Validation of the NOC and Testing of Measurement Procedures. Chapter 3 Detailed Description of Methods Used to Develop the Outcomes and Indicators: Process for rating data sources, Sources reviewed and extraction of outcome statements, Grouping of Outcome Statements to Develop Nursing-Sensitive Outcome Labels Database Management, Placing the Outcomes in Broad Categories for Assessing Content Validity and Refinement, Focus group concept analyses, Content validation by nurse experts, Results of the surveys of nurse experts, Field Testing the Nursing-Sensitive Outcomes and Indicators. Chapter 4 The Current and Future Classification: The Classification, The Classification-What It Is, The Classification What It Is Not, The Classification and Its Uses, Use in Practice, Outcome Goals for Individual Patients, Outcome Goals for Patient Groups, Outcome Measures, Use in Research, Policy Formulation, and Education, Implementing the Classification in Practice, Implementing the Outcome, Implementing the Outcome Indicators, Implementing the Measurement Scales. The Classification Ongoing and Future Work, Request for Feedback, Summary. PART II: Nursing-Sensitive Outcomes Classification (NOC) Labels, Definitions, and Scales (in alphabetical order). PART III: Appendices, Index.