Abstract

GOMES, José Augusto Pereira; MARTINS, Maria Manuela Ferreira Pereira Silva; GONCALVES, Maria Narcisa da Costa  and  FERNANDES, Carla Sílvia Neves da Nova. Nursing rehabilitation: road to quality assessment in admission units. Rev. Enf. Ref. [online]. 2012, vol.serIII, n.8, pp.29-38. ISSN 0874-0283.  https://doi.org/10.12707/RIII1265.

This article is an attempt to present a route to identify factors that contribute to the quality of nursing care for inpatient rehabilitation units and to identify instruments used to design and evaluate a way to create an assessment instrument for care in rehabilitation nursing. This is a qualitative study conducted in the medical services of a hospital in the north of Portugal, whose participants were twelve nurse specialists in rehabilitation, and the data collection method was semi-structured interview. The results that emerge from the participants’ narratives translate into a set of attributes that illustrate the model proposed by Donabedian, based on three components of health care: structure, process and outcome, and the cycle of continuous improvement proposed by Deming. We analised the specific requirements for good practice in rehabilitation care.

Keywords : quality of health care; rehabilitation nursing.

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