To what extent is outcome measurement important to the delivery of psychiatric nursing care?
a. It is more "nice" than it is necessary.
b. It will support the legitimacy of psychiatric nursing.
c. It will promote descriptive and correlational nursing research.
d. It gives information about the appropriate settings for treatment.
B
Currently no research evidence supports the important contributions psychiatric nurses make to positive patient outcomes. Without such evidence, psychiatric nursing services can be deemed to be cost ineffective and therefore unnecessary.
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