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A Qualitative Study To Analyze The Effectiveness Of A Researcher Designed Tool In Documenting Outcomes Of Caring Encounters, Both Individually And Over Time, Karen S. Ackerman
A Qualitative Study To Analyze The Effectiveness Of A Researcher Designed Tool In Documenting Outcomes Of Caring Encounters, Both Individually And Over Time, Karen S. Ackerman
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Background: Research into the documentation of quality-of-care outcomes is pivotal to developing nursing theory, increasing the knowledge base of nursing, and highlighting nursing accomplishments. This thesis presents a researcher-designed, agency-specific tool as one way of describing and documenting the outcomes of caring encounters. Purpose: The purpose of this study was to analyze the effectiveness of a researcher-designed tool in documenting the outcomes of caring encounters both individually and over time. Method: A descriptive research design was used to study the implementation of the tool. Watson's Theory of Human Caring served as the synthesizing framework. Results: Outcome tools applied to 34 …