Development of an easy-to-use questionnaire assessing critical care nursing competence in Japan: A cross-sectional study.

ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND:Critical care nurses need a high level of medical competence, especially with regard to patient safety. There are several tools to measure general and critical care nursing competence, but the usability of these tools is inadequate because they include large numbers of questions. To maintain quality and safety in intensive care units (ICUs), it is necessary to be able to easily measure and evaluate critical care nursing competence. The purpose of this study was to develop an easy-to-use questionnaire assessing critical care nursing competence related to patient safety. METHODS:A cross-sectional, descriptive, explorative study was designed to collect data from nurses working in six ICUs in tertiary hospitals in Japan. Data were collected from August 2017 to December 2018. The Cri

SUBMITTER: Okumura M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6881035 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature