Provision of better nursing care to patients is a difficult but important task. The first problerr for nursing quality improvement is development of evaluation tool for the quality of nursing care.
This study tries to develop a patient care tool for patients with chronic renal failure. This study as a procedural evaluation of patient care, tries to show what, how, at what order to provide care to patients with chronic renal failure.
This study is divided into process of development of tool, its reliability and validity.
Among process of development of tool is focal group, small expert group and expert evaluation group. To develop approprieteness of tool, nurses working is four major hospitals is Seoul were selected. To evaluate the credibility of subjects, 19 patient who were hospitalized and discharged within 3 months were selected. The period for collecting data for reliability and valiability evaluation was between Sept. 20 to Oct. 18, 1995.
The development process of this study is as follows
1. Make preliminary list of the tool by focal group consisting of 8 clinical nurses.
2. Modify and add preliminary list by 4 expert nursing panel.
3. Calculate content validity of the tool by 23 nursing expert panel of judge. 4. Verity relability and validity of the tool.
5. Finalize an evaluation tool for the quality of nursing care in chronic renal failure patient.
The result of this study were as follows
1. Development of evaluation tool for the quality
of nursing care in chronic renal failure.
1) The evaluation of this study was developed
5 standards, 28 criteria, and 130 indicators
2) Nursing care evaluation scores for chronic
renal failure patients were average 68.8.
2. Verity reliability and validity of the tool.
1) 5 standards were divided into 4 point scale and according to 28 creteria, indicators of standard were 3.72 and of criteria were 3.77
2) Inter - rater reliability (consentaneity score) of the tool by pearson correlation coefficient betwwen rates were r= .72, r= .75 and interreliabilities by single - facet crossed design were r= .96.
3) The alpha coeffecient relating to internal c
onsistency was .7259 over 27 items of 28 crit
erias of developed tool.
Through this study, I´m sure that the developed tool for the quality of patient care in chronicrenal failure patient will show the way of more improvement of the quality of nursing care and effective nursing intervention.
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