ABSTRACT
Objective To explore the effect of high quality nursing care performing in the operating room and reasonable approach for assessment. Methods Stratified random sampling was used to select 93 nurses from two tertiary hospitals. The task performance and contextual performance was assessed before and after implementing a range of high quality nursing care program. Results The task performance scores and patient care, nursing information, nurse skills dimension scores respectively were 58.59 ±1.77, 19.27±1.16, 19.50±1.11, 19.80±0.70 after the operating room junior high quality nursing service project, which were 37.21 ± 1.92, 5.55 ± 0.86, 13.78 ± 1.12, 17.87 ± 0.98 before the implementation, the differences were statistically significant (t=-82.48--15.15, P<0.01). The performance scores and mutual support between colleagues, work out the extra burden, organizational support dimension scores were respectively 70.43 ± 2.94, 28.23 ± 1.21, 18.52 ± 1.29, 23.67 ± 1.86 after the operating room junior high quality nursing service project, which were 36.20 ± 1.79, 15.52 ± 1.94, 7.33 ± 1.11, 13.34 ± 0.87 before the implementation, the differences were statistically significant (t=-91.99--46.68, P<0.01). Conclusions The high quality nursing care program is a range of nursing service which can advance task performance and contextual performance of nurses in the operating room. Task performance and contextual performance are effective approaches by which high quality nursing care in operating room could be reasonably assessed.