Impact of Nurses on Health Care Quality
The work environment and the nursing care provided within that environment are both integral to determining patient satisfaction and help administrators and nurses determine the quality of care being provided at their institutions. This review covers a qualitative study launched to research the effects of such an interaction.NURS 3101 week 3 Essay Assignment
I reviewed a research paper that covered a qualitative study done on Dutch nurses that was inspired by other various studies on the matter of evaluating the patient quality care experience (Kieft, de Brouwer, Francke, & Delnoij, 2014). It is important to note that the study group was small and consisted of four focus groups containing 26 registered nurses who worked in the fields of hospital care, mental health care, nursing home care, and home care (Kieft et al., 2014). At the end of the study, the researchers noted that though more research would need to be completed on this matter—especially considering that only four areas of the health care environment were reviewed—the data being collected still became redundant and gave confidence to the researchers that data saturation had been reached (Kieft et al., 2014).