This group was established to collate the experiences of nursing researchers from different perspectives into a unique objective: the articulation of patient scoring system in nursing and healthcare practice. With the growing recognition of evidence-based practice, healthcare practice is moving towards quantifying patient features using robust instrumentations that utilize objective parameters that reflect physiological observations rather than individualized subjective decisions. This enhances rapid, accurate, and reliable descriptions of the severity of patient illnesses especially in the acute and critical care settings....More