Global Case Management

This study applied a descriptive design to determine the usefulness of nursing diagnoses, on the basis of the Omaha System framework, in explaining utilization of primary health care services. Important findings include the identification of a medium number of problems for each client (M = 3.2), the broad range of problems, and an associated narrow number of interventions (M = 2.4 per client). The most frequently identified problems by domain were psychological (35.7%). Interventions were provided most frequently for diagnoses in the physiological domain with health teaching, guidance, and counselling of intervention category. The results of this study suggest that data related to nursing diagnoses are a valuable source of information when examining home health care nursing resource use.