Development and preliminary psychometric evaluation of a nursing error tool in critical care units.

Autor: Bahmanpour K; School of Nursing and Midwifery, Islamic Azad University of Sanandaj, Sanandaj, Iran., Nemati SM; Tohid Hospital, Kurdistan University of Medical Sciences, Sanandaj, Iran., Lantta T; Department of Nursing Science, University of Turku, Turku, Finland., Ghanei Gheshlagh R; Spiritual Health Research Center, Research, Institute for Health Development, Kurdistan University of Medical Sciences, Sanandaj, Iran; Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery, Kurdistan University of Medical Sciences, Sanandaj, Iran., Valiee S; Spiritual Health Research Center, Research, Institute for Health Development, Kurdistan University of Medical Sciences, Sanandaj, Iran; Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery, Kurdistan University of Medical Sciences, Sanandaj, Iran. Electronic address: Valiee@muk.ac.ir.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Intensive & critical care nursing [Intensive Crit Care Nurs] 2021 Dec; Vol. 67, pp. 103079. Date of Electronic Publication: 2021 Jul 08.
DOI: 10.1016/j.iccn.2021.103079
Abstrakt: Objective: This study was conducted to address the importance of identifying nursing errors in critical care units and the lack of appropriate tools for measuring them. This study aimed to develop and psychometrically evaluate a nursing error tool in critical care units.
Design: This was a psychometric validity study.
Setting: The study involved eight critical care units affiliated with Kurdistan University of Medical Sciences.
Methods: The research was conducted in two phases. In the first phase, data were gathered via interviews with nurses, and analyzed with conventional content analysis. The primary codes and subcategories were identified as tool items. In the second phase, the psychometric properties of the instrument, including face validity, content validity, construct validity, internal consistency, and reliability were investigated.
Results: In the first phase, 142 items were extracted; this number was reduced to 40 items after assessing qualitative content validity. Exploratory factor analysis identified five factors: medication error, task description error, executive error, procedural error, and safety error, which made up 88% of the total variance. The Cronbach's alpha was 0.97.
Conclusions: The development of a validated nursing error tool is helpful in identifying the extent and typologies of nursing errors, and could aid in designing better prevention strategies in critical care units.
Competing Interests: Declaration of Competing Interest The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.
(Copyright © 2021. Published by Elsevier Ltd.)
Databáze: MEDLINE
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