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Summary
Finnish nursing standards focus on specific patient groups and core principles like safety and patient autonomy. However, their abstract nature makes evaluating achieved quality challenging.
Area of Science:
- Nursing Quality Assurance
- Healthcare Standards Development
Context:
- Nursing standards are integral to quality assurance in Finnish healthcare.
- Analysis of 190 nursing standards from Finnish hospitals and health centers.
Purpose:
- To describe the types of nursing standards developed in Finland.
- To understand the quality assurance process in Finnish nursing.
Summary:
- Nursing standards primarily target specific patient populations (e.g., newborns, cancer patients) and nursing principles (safety, individuality, patient autonomy).
- Standards were often written abstractly, using passive language, and describing an ideal quality level.
- The abstract formulation complicates the measurement and evaluation of achieved quality.
Impact:
- Highlights the need for more measurable and concrete nursing standards.
- Informs future development of effective quality assurance tools in nursing practice.
- Provides insights into current quality management in Finnish nursing.