Nurse leaders have a clear understanding of patient-care products and their intended outcomes. You're accountable for achieving specific results, namely assuring patient and provider safety, supporting patient comfort, and documenting patient outcomes. Nursing commercial competence. Today's marketplace needs nursing service that balances clinical intent with economic impact. Nurses now must make choices about patient-care products that include fiscal accountability, or commercial competence.
Wise choices integrate standards of care, appropriate outcomes, and fiscal accountability.
Nurses must integrate commercial competence into their skill set of clinical and relational competencies. Evidence-based product selection. Members should consider clearly defined evidence, including the goals of multiple stakeholders such as patients, clinical end-users, purchasers, financial analysts, managers, and the organization. Deciding the real value of different choices requires careful analysis of alternatives and their consequences. Traditional evaluations, based on cost-benefit analysis, are most effective when a product's benefits can be priced in dollars.