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KMID : 1004620100160030157
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Clinical Nursing Research
2010 Volume.16 No. 3 p.157 ~ p.174
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The Development of Outcome Indicators for Advanced Practice Nurses
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Sung Young-Hee
Lim Kyung-Choon
Jeong Jae-Sim
Jeong Jae-Sim
Cho Myoung-Sook
Kim Kyoung-Ok
Kim Myung-Ae
Park Kwang-Ok
Kim Eul-Soon
Hwang Moon-Sook
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Abstract
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Purpose: This study aims to develop, verify, and suggest outcome indicators for advanced practice nurses (APNs) in order to clarify their usefulness.
Methods: To develop outcome indicators, the following methods were applied: reviewing literature intended to identify preliminary outcome indicators; surveying outcome indicators currently used for APNs and collecting the opinions from representatives of the professionals in clinical practice; verifying the content validity of preliminary outcome indicators by professionals and verifying the preliminary outcome indicators with 252 APNs.
Results: Suggested outcome indicators are categorized into 84 items in total. Of these, the number of outcome
indicators commonly appearing across disciplines was 18, mostly related to satisfaction and education. A majority of other outcome indictors exhibiting high relevance to individual disciplines are associated with care, including critical care (19 items), oncologic care (9 items) and emergency care (10 items).
Conclusion: As the outcome indicators identified in this study are available to demonstrate the usefulness of APNs, it is recommended that future studies need to select and use appropriate outcome indicators according to characteristics and conditions of the discipline under examination. In addition, it is necessary to validate whether the suggested outcome indicators reflect adequately the practices of APNs.
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KEYWORD
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Advanced practice nurses, Outcome indicator
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