Measuring the Efficacy of Nursing Education in Preoperative Care: A Literature Review
In the nursing journal, The Critical Care Nurse, nurse Ruth M. Klienpell wrote in 2003 that the contemporary healthcare environment places an emphasis on measuring nursing performance in a process-based and quantificable fashion. The stress is upon "high-quality service at an affordable price,' and with "good outcomes." (Klienpell, 2003, p.1) But little guidance is given to nursing educators how to achieve these lofty but often separate focuses of saving money and providing quality care. Klienpell's article attempts to suggest that evaluating patient outcomes as a way of assessing the quality of care is superior, while Linda M. Sigsby and Hosseni Yanardi suggest that evaluating nursing knowledge is superior in their article in the AORN Journal geared to assessing preoperative nursing education specifically.
Given the strapped budgets of many facilities, Klienpell stresses that in nursing education there is a desire to show what methodologies are proven to work when teaching new nurses. "Measuring outcomes is especially important, as [nursing] roles are being scrutinized. (Klienpell, 2003, p.1) Clinical hands-on experiences for student nurses are being cut back in some areas, and being replaced by classes, to reduce costs. However, the AORN Journal, a monthly publication focusing on perioperative nursing information, states that this move is to the detriment of care for prospective...
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