Exploring indicators of telephone nursing quality.
No Thumbnail Available
Date
1999-12-21
Authors
Journal Title
Journal ISSN
Volume Title
Publisher
Abstract
To explore whether documentation use of clinical guidelines and nurse competency are the best indicators of quality telephone nursing this study examined the relationship between these commonly cited indicators and the characteristics of a telephone nursing call This study done at a large health maintenance organization HMO found accompanying symptoms played a major role in telephone nursing assessment call length was related to documentation process and to number of visits to a health care facility after a call nurses interpersonal skills and ability to determine urgency of a call are related to the documentation process but not to outcomes of the call time of a call is related to disposition and disposition is related to number of visits after a call