| AIC | Akaike Information Criterion |
| BBS | Behavioural Beliefs Scale |
| CBS | Control Beliefs Scale |
| CI | Confidence Interval |
| CNPR | Collegial Nurse–Physician Relations |
| DRG | Diagnosis-Related Group |
| EHR | Electronic Health Record |
| FDR | False Discovery Rate |
| ICC | Intraclass Correlation Coefficient |
| ICD-9-CM | International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision, Clinical Modification |
| IQR | Interquartile Range |
| IRR | Incidence Rate Ratio |
| LRT | Likelihood Ratio Test |
| NBS | Normative Beliefs Scale |
| ND | Nursing Diagnosis |
| NDs | Nursing Diagnoses |
| NFQC | Nursing Foundations for Quality of Care |
| NMALS | Nurse Manager Ability, Leadership, and Support |
| NPHA | Nurse Participation in Hospital Affairs |
| OR | Odds Ratio |
| PES-NWI | Practice Environment Scale of the Nursing Work Index |
| PND | Positions on Nursing Diagnosis Scale |
| SD | Standard Deviation |
| SRA | Staffing and Resource Adequacy |
| TPB | Theory of Planned Behaviour |