The nursing process is a fundamental component of curricula in schools of nursing. The nursing process also is adaptable to continuing education offerings provided by a nursing education and research department of an urban, community teaching hospital. This article describes how nurse educators used the nursing process as the basis for development, implementation, and evaluation of an advanced medical-surgical continuing education program.

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Psychometric analysis of the problem rating scale for outcomes.

The current emphasis on outcomes management and outcomes research projects is stimulating interest in the psychometric properties of computerized clinical data bases among nurses and other health care providers. The knowledge, behavior, and status subscales of the Omaha System's Problem Rating Scale for Outcomes (PRSO) were evaluated for interrater reliability and content validity. The authors describe the methods used and the results of that research.

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