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Using the nursing interventions classification as a potential measure of nurse workload

Pamela B de Cordova1, Robert J Lucero, Sookyung Hyun

  • 1Columbia University School of Nursing, Center for Health Policy (Ms de Cordova and Drs Lucero, Hyun, and Stone) and Hospital for Special Surgery (Mss Quinlan and Price), New York.

Journal of Nursing Care Quality
|July 30, 2009
PubMed
Summary

This study explores the Nursing Interventions Classification (NIC) as a framework for developing a nursing workload measure. The NIC can uniformly represent nursing work in health information systems for reliable data.

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