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Teaching baccalaureate nursing students to project outcomes to nursing interventions
1Boston College School of Nursing, Chestnut Hill, MA, USA.
Purpose:
To develop an innovative method of teaching baccalaureate nursing students to plan for and recognize outcomes to specific nursing interventions.
Methods:
A case study design that measured the effectiveness of a teaching innovation. Tools for students (N = 8) to use during clinical practice included an Intervention-Outcome Analysis Tool and a Nursing Clinical Outcomes Tool.
Findings:
Quantitative and qualitative evaluation data were presented that showed growth in the ability to set and meet patient outcomes during the semester.
Conclusions:
Thinking in terms of outcomes moved student beyond problem solving in their clinical thinking and assisted them to learn to develop individualized outcome statements for their patients.