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Health Systems
The Health Systems Area of Excellence (AoE) develops knowledge about health system learning and innovation to guide evidence-based practice and evidence-informed decision- and policy making across health care sectors and acute, continuing, ambulatory and community settings.
Items in this Collection
- 2Continuing Education
- 2Human Capital
- 2Nurse Staffing
- 2Nursing Theory
- 1Exploratory Factor Analysis
- 1Nursing theory
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2011
Covell, Christine L., Manojlovich, Milisa, Antonakos, Cathy L., Sidani, Souraya
Background: Inconsistent findings in over 100 studies have made it difficult to explain how variation in nurse staffing affects patient outcomes. Nurse dose, defined as the level of nurses required to provide patient care in hospital settings, draws on variables used in staffing studies to...
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Nursing Intellectual Capital Theory: Operationalization and Empirical Validation of Concepts
Download2012-11-16
Covell, Christine L., Sidani, Souraya
Aims: This paper presents the operationalization of concepts in the nursing intellectual capital theory and the results of a methodological study aimed to empirically validate the concepts. Background: The nursing intellectual capital theory proposes the stocks of nursing knowledge within an...
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2013-03-05
Covell, Christine L., Sidani, Souraya
Aims: To test selected propositions of the middle-range theory of nursing intellectual capital. Background: The nursing intellectual capital theory conceptualizes nursing knowledge’s influence on patient and organizational outcomes. The theory proposes nursing human capital, nurses’ knowledge,...