NURSING SENSITIVE OUTCOMES - NURSING SENSITIVE OUTCOMES

Sensitive outcomes to nursing care represent the consequence or effects of the interventions provided by nurses (Staffing) and manifest themselves with changes in the state of health, in the behavior or in the perception of the patient and / or with the resolution of the current problem for which the nursing care was provided.  

The English term staffing refers to the composition of an organic (staff) both in quantitative and qualitative terms (how many graduated nurses, how many with clinical masters, how many with experience, etc.).

In the literature there are different definitions of Nursing Sensitive Outcomes or Nursing Outcomes, all of which can be traced back to the contribution of nursing to the patient's care path (Donabedian 1966; Marek 1989; Gordon 1998).