This paper adapts the perspective of organizational contingency theory to consider
the changing nature of how the economic impact of nursing care upon health care organizations
is measured. It is argued that useful measures of the economic impact of nursing care
are a function of environmental, organizational, and technological circumstances.
The increasing and diverse demands of health care consumers (environmental), the dramatic
restructuring and re-engineering of the health care delivery system (organizational),
and recent developments in the capabilities of and insights from information measurement
practices (technological), have all provided opportunities for more meaningful measurement
of the contributions of nursing care to the economic well-being of health care organizations.
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Biography
Mark A. Covaleski PhD is the Robert Beyer Professor of Managerial Accounting, Graduate School of Business, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI.
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