Abstract

CARVAJAL CARRASCAL, Gloria et al. Nursing practice environment and nursing outcomes. Index Enferm [online]. 2016, vol.25, n.1-2, pp.14-17. ISSN 1699-5988.

Aim: to compare the nursing practice environment and nursing care outcomes in a group of inpatient services from public and private clinical institutions of secondary and tertiary care. Methodology: comparative descriptive study with a purposive sample of 210 nurses and patients, and simple random of 1576 patients. In order to get data collection PES-NWI, a record of socio demographic and clinical data of patients and a record of care outcome indicators was used. Results: It was found that clinical institutions showed favorable and mixed clinical practice environments for the performance of the professional nursing role. Significant differences were observed depending on the institution (private / public) in the sample of hospitalized patients regarding presence of complications, knowledge of the disease and treatment and satisfaction with care. Conclusion: It is important to implement improvement measures in the surroundings of the practice environment that foster the quality of care and the satisfaction of users and nurses.

Keywords : Care; Care outcomes; Nursing; Work environment.