This study was performed to develop the conceptual framework of the nursing productivity. The study efforts were made (1) to define the concept the nursing productivity, (2) to identify the elements of the productivity, and (3) to determine the
relationship among the elements. With the aim, the study employed a descriptive analysis by way of reviewing various references related to the subject.
The nursing productivity consisits of such elements as the nursing efficiency and the nursing effectiveness which are complementary to each other. The nursing efficiency is the quantative input/output ratio, while the nursing effectiveness
represents
the integrated outcome of such sub-elements as the degree of accomplishing nusing goals, the quality of nussing service, consumer's satisfaction, and the degree of improvement of nurse's attitude tomward the quality care.
The nursing prodictivity can be estimated by summing up the nursing efficiency and the effectiveness.
By employing the system theory model, the elements of the nursing productivity consist fo three elements ; the input, the process, and the output. By the process elements, the system inputs are transformed to the system outputs nursing effciency
and
nursing effecitveness which are input to the system, in turn, through feedback mechanism (Figure 4).
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