Timely
nursing assessments and appropriate nursing interventions
delivered day by day after surgery may improve
treatment effectiveness and patient satisfaction. Thus,
it is important to verify the economic value of nursing
care by examining the types of nursing interventions
delivered and the extent to which these interventions
influence hospital costs and patient outcomes. The
lack of complete nursing data sets and the complexity
of nursing resources and practice patterns have hindered
nurses’ efforts to measure the cost-effectiveness
of nursing, which has resulted in a limited description
of the clinical and economic value of hospital nursing
care.