Nursing resource planning in Norway

One explanation for nurses' reticence about becoming involved in money issues is that they often mistakenly associate economics with cutting costs or cost containment. Another is nursing's European heritage, where the nurses' morale obligation has historically been to the patient. However, if nursing as a service is to continue, nurses must learn to plan their nursing resources, cost their services and document their effectiveness in terms of interventions and patient outcomes. To help nurse administrators gather more and better data for resource planning, below is a look at a framework suggested by Martha Quivey and the future directions to be taken.