Dangers of Not Using Measures of Effect in Nursing Practice

Nursing practice is a comprehensive set of interdependent activities, and issues of one work aspect can worsen the others. If no measures of effect were performed to assess nurses’ actions and decisions, the risk factor-outcome relationship would become impossible to discover and address when problems occur (Tripepi et al., 2010). The nursing practice during the challenging times of the COVID-19 pandemic is an example where lack of evaluation, benchmarks of quality, and decision-making control lead to mortality growth and disease outbreaks among personnel (Galli et al., 2020). Consequently, a measure of effect must be used to timely identify and address absolute and relative causes of nurse- or patient-related issues.

Conclusion

The measure of effect is a helpful tool for improving nursing practices from various aspects, and not implementing the strategy into the performance analysis has severe outcomes for practitioners, patients, and healthcare facilities. Establishing indexes to evaluate the connection between specific actions, circumstances, and outcomes is crucial for improving nurses’ performance. The measure of effect enables healthcare facilities to timely discover weak points and adjust nursing practice to maintain a high quality of their services.

References

Friis, R. H., & Sellers, T. A. (2021). Epidemiology for public health practice (6^th ed.). Jones & Bartlett.