Nursing Care and Its Relationhisp to Patient Outcomes - Evaluating patient outcomes from nursing care

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Palestra on the evaluation of patient outcomes derived from nursing care, addressing the challenge nurses face in identifying, measuring, and using patient results to judge the quality and responsibility of care. It links nursing professionals’ work conditions and managerial practices with patient-reported outcomes, emphasizing the urgency of transformation in healthcare management. The text outlines the need to define and monitor quantitative indicators to support planning, organization, coordination, and assessment within the nursing department context.

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Introduction

Nursing care and patient outcomes

Need for quality transformation and indicators

Presenting the institutional scenario

HU-USP context and nursing department structure

Palestra Nursing Care and Its Relationhisp to Patient Outcomes Avaliação de resultados do paciente obtidos a partir dos cuidados de enfermagem Evaluación de resultados del paciente obtenidos a partir de los cuidados de enfermería Antônio Fernandes Costa Lima1 INTRODUCTION Florence Nightingale was a pioneer assessing the results of nursing care during the Crimea war. As of then, nurses have been trying to identify, measure, and use the patient results to assess the nursing care provided(1-2) . The assessment of patient results derived from nursing care is a great challenge to the nurses who make this profession their life philosophy, once, when they assume the role in the healthcare context, care and responsibility for such care results is the essence of their action(1) . With this aim, searching for the continuous nursing care improvement, it is essential for nursing professionals to comply with the qualitative and quantitative aspects of the profession, investments – both institutional and personal – in order to enhance their abilities, as well as work conditions that enable the appropriate performance of their activities, and have the patient/client expectations and needs fulfilled. In the contemporary literature, the research development is a proof of the direct connection between nursing professionals work conditions and the results presented by patients, demonstrating that nurses care about the results of their actions(3) . Therefore, the concern with a quality in the healthcare sector defined as being a group of attributes that includes a level of professional excellence, the efficient resource usage, minimum risks to the patient / client, a high level user satisfaction, and the observation of existing social values(4), points out to the urgent need of a transformation to the managerial practice. In this context, the Nursing Department (ND) of Hospital Universitário da Universidade de São Paulo (HUUSP – School Hospital), considering the relevance of implementing strategies that allow the patient results obtained from actions developed by the nursing professionals, adopted assistance and people management indicators, which make it possible to study the results in comparison with the Institution internal and external standards. It is worth highlighting that, in healthcare service programs, measuring quality is indispensable for the planning, organization, coordination, and assessment of the developed activities(5) and, in order to do so, it is necessary to elaborate and monitor indicators(6) . An indicator is a quantitative measure of an activity that may be used as a guide to monitor and assess the care quality, as well as the activities developed in a service(7) . PRESENTING THE INSTITUTIONAL SCENARIO The HU (School Hospital) is a complementary organ of USP, assigned to the teaching and research, providing 1 PhD in Nursing. Director of the Clinic Nursing Division of Hospital Universitário da Universidade de São Paulo (USP School Hospital)– São Paulo (SP) Brazil. Corresponding Author: Antônio Fernandes Costa Lima Av. Prof. Lineu Prestes, 2565 - Cidade Universitária - São Paulo - SP - Brazil CEP. 05508-000 E-mail: [tonifer@usp.br](tonifer@usp.br) Acta Paul Enferm 2009;22(Especial-70 Anos): 872-4. Nursing Care and Its Relationhisp to Patient Outcomes 873 integral multi-disciplinary care of average complexity, based on the epistemological profile of the population using the Sistema Único de Saúde (SUS–Public Healthcare System) and USP students’ services in Butantã District. It is registered in the National Healthcare and Education Departments, and as Hospital Amigo da Criança (Childfriendly Hospital) . It has 247 beds and an Ambulatory that provide services to patients in the clinic-surgical, pediatric, and gynecology-obstetrics areas. The hospital financial resources come from USP’s appropriation bill and services provided by SUS (Public Healthcare System) . The HU-USP Superior Adm

FAQs

Why is evaluating patient outcomes derived from nursing care considered challenging for nurses?

It is described as a major challenge because nurses must identify and measure patient results in a way that reflects the quality and responsibility of the care they provide.

How does the document relate nursing work conditions to patient outcomes?

It states that contemporary literature provides evidence of a direct connection between nurses’ work conditions and the results presented by patients, showing that nurses care about the outcomes of their actions.

What role do indicators play in ensuring healthcare quality?

Indicators are presented as quantitative measures used to guide monitoring and assessment of care quality and service activities, enabling planning and evaluation of developed actions.

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