MEASURING NURSING CARE CONSUMPTION

Nursing care intends to be the most sorted care within health care sector, however the visibility of its impact tends to be dwindled masked as a result of none or poor measurement scale for the consumption of nursing duties.

Through charts, data can be collected in every nursing department which can be utilized in determining or measuring nursing care consumption of every nursing care setting.
It is of the opinion of many patients especially in Africa that nursing care is secondary to the physician’s care, a theory every nurse will fight, but it is the work needed to be done behind the lines in our clinical setting that will define the consumption of these cares provided.

A patient is surrounded by a several health care providers once admitted or in any health care facilitates, hence the need for the nursing profession to determine means of outlining the impact of its contribution not only in charts but also to the consumers (Patients) is paramount.
Again there is growing need for the consumers of nursing to be intimidated with what nursing duties are. This is because some works done by nurse are being credited to other health care provides for example in Nigeria every patient believes that it is the doctor who directs the work of a nurse, a perception which needs to be dumped! In some cases some patients will want to see their doctors before they accept a nursing care provided.

How to measure the consumption of nursing care especially in settings where nursing administrative department is allowed to be in the hospital board will always be a problem for the profession. But how the nursing sections make their consumers aware of their services is down to new methods of nursing management. Hence the question: How measurable is nursing care consumption?