Nursing Management Diagnoses : Validation in Gerontological Nursing Management

Abstract

The purpose of this investigation is three-fold: (a) to validate nursing management diagnoses previously identified by nurse managers, (b) to examine how frequently the validated nursing management diagnoses are perceived to occur in nursing management practice and the level of disruption caused by organizational problems in meeting nursing’s goals, and (c) to establish a correlation between frequency of occurrence and level of disruption in a gerontological nursing management setting. This investigation is a partial replication of Morrison’s (1995) study validating nursing management diagnoses