...entitled Peer Review: Guidelines for Establishment of Committees (4). This document defined peer review as the process by which registered nurses, actively engaged...nursing care in a given situation in accordance with the established Standards of Nursing Practice. The purposes of peer review are: 1) to evaluate the...

...same abilities or qualifications (Felton and Swanson, 1995). Nursing peer review has been defined as the process by which registered nurses, actively engaged...situation in accordance with established standards of nursing practice (Kovach et al., 1985) To assure quality and credibility, performance criteria used...