Value-informed nursing practice: What is it and how to make it a reality.

Nurses make decisions about the use of costly resources in countless care delivery settings 24 hours a day. Consequently, nurses are inseparably connected to not only the quality and safety of care, but to the cost-of-care as well. This article is Part 1 of a 6-part series on value-informed nursing practice. It describes the concept of 'value-informed nursing practice'-practice that focuses not only on outcomes, but also on the cost of care-as a new way to envision nursing practice.