We need to continuously evaluate for nursing quality and the outcome to reflect nursing, to re-pair and improve of nursing. The first problem for nursing quality improvement is development of evaluation tool for the quality of nursing care. We need a system for quality assurance evaluation that is, development and framework of evaluation tool for nursing care quality.
The purpose of this study was attempted to develop an evaluation tool for the quality of nursing care in musculoskeletal disorder patients. The approach method of nursing quality for the development of the tool in this study was process evaluation framework.
The study were devided dvelopment process and reliability, validity verification process. The subjects of development process of this tool are three nursing export groups, and the subject of re-liability, validity verification process are 20 samples of two university hospital in seoul, who were within discharge 3 months after admission treatment in musculoskeletal disorder.
Data for this study was collected from March 10 to April 13, 1995.
The development process of the tool were as follows
1. Make preliminary list of the tool by focal group were constituted 12 clinical nurses.
2. Modify and add preliminary list by 4 nursing expert panel.
3. Calculate content validity of the tool by 25 nursing expert panel of judge.
4. Verify reliability and validity of the tool.
5. Finalize an evaluation tool for the quality of the nursing care in musculoskeletal disorder.
The results of this study were as follows :
1) Development an evaluation tool for the quality of nursing care in musculoskeletal disorder.
(1) The evalution tool of this study was developed 5 standards, 33 criterias and 133 indicators.
(2) 5 standards were divided according to Nursing Process. from standard 1 to standard 5, involved criterias were each 6(18%), 3(9%), 3 (9%), 15(460/o), 6(18%).
2) Verify reliability and validity of the tool.
(1) Score of adequate degree for content validity of 33 criterias and 133 indicators were every average 2.82.
(2) Interrater reliabilities(consentaneity score) of the tool by pearson correlation coefficient between three raters were : r=.7506, r=. 8934, r=.6695. and Interrater reliabilities by singlefacet crossed design were : r=.7464.
(3) The alpha coefficient relating to internal consistency was .8524 over all 30 items of 33 criterias of developed tool.
(4) Score of the quality of nursing care following to generaal characteristics of this study subjects were stastically significant differences ac-cording to educational level (F=2.93, p=.029)and diagnosing classification (F=2.50, p=.042).
Through this study, I´m sure that the developed tool for the quality of patient care in musculoskeletal disorder will show the way of more improvement of the quality of nursing care and effective nursing interventions.
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