Sjuksköterskors registrering av vårdtyngd på en intensivvårdsavdelning - en undersökning av
instrumentets validitet och realibilitet
Engelsk titel: Nurses' registration of the workload at an intensive care unit - an investigation of the validity and
reliability of the instument
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Författare:
Persson L
;
Glimelius Petersson C
Email: cecilia.glimelius-petersson@skane.se
Språk: Swe
Antal referenser: 22
Dokumenttyp:
Artikel
UI-nummer: 05073823
Sammanfattning
Nursing workload according to
Vårdtyngd Lund (VTL) has been
registered at the unite since 1992.
An earlier study showed that nurses
interpreted the indicators of
the instrument and the general
outlines for using it differently.
The aims of this study were to
investigate the ability of VTL to
discriminate among different
patients, the internal consistency
of the indicators of the instrument
and the inter-rater reliability.
Thirty-one nurses independently
rated the workload of six patients
earlier cared for at the unite. The
results indicate that the instrument
may have a low discriminative
power. Cronbach`s alpha was
0.7. A high percentage of agreement
(> 90 %) was found in 26 %
of the measurements. In 10 % the
agreement was very low (< 50%).
The correlation measured as
weighted kappa varied between
0.18 - 0.64. The results indicate
that the indicators and the
manual need to be developed further
and more clearly defined so
that the nurses can use them in a
congruent way.