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The director of nursing is selecting tools to measure outcomes of patient care. What will the director keep in mind when making the tool selection?
Standard Text: Select all that apply.
1. People available to score the instrument
2. Instrument not used as punishment
3. Ease of completing the instrument
4. Validity of the instrument
5. The right instrument
Correct

2,4,5
Rationale 1: When measuring performance of care a balance needs to be achieved between the right instrument, the validity of the instrument, and using the instrument in a non-punitive way. Having people available to score the instrument is not a variable for the director to consider when selecting tools to measure outcomes of patient care. (See Page 141 Measurement of Outcomes)
Rationale 2: When measuring performance of care a balance needs to be achieved between the right instrument, the validity of the instrument, and using the instrument in a non-punitive way. (See Page 141 Measurement of Outcomes)
Rationale 3: When measuring performance of care a balance needs to be achieved between the right instrument, the validity of the instrument, and using the instrument in a non-punitive way. The ease of completing the instrument is not a variable for the director to consider when selecting tools to measure outcomes of patient care. (See Page 141 Measurement of Outcomes)
Rationale 4: When measuring performance of care a balance needs to be achieved between the right instrument, the validity of the instrument, and using the instrument in a non-punitive way. (See Page 141 Measurement of Outcomes)
Rationale 5: When measuring performance of care a balance needs to be achieved between the right instrument, the validity of the instrument, and using the instrument in a non-punitive way. (See Page 141 Measurement of Outcomes)

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