Research on the construction of grading nursing care at public hospitals / 中华医院管理杂志

Objective To construct a grading nursing care system at public hospitals based on the severity of illness and activities of daily living ( ADL). Methods Multi-center stratified random sampling was used to investigate the general adult patients hospitalized in 12 wards of six tertiary-level hospitals in the eastern, central and western parts of China from January to December of 2016. The Barthel index and simple clinical score ( SCS) were used to evaluate their ADL and severity of illness, while a customized direct nursing hour scale was applied to record the direct nursing time needed by patients in 24 hours. Nursing grades were defined according to different conditions and ADL and to the difference of patient needs of 24 h direct nursing hours. Results 7 200 patients were investigated in total, and 7 073 effective questionnaires were collected (98. 24% ). Seven new grades of nursing care were defined based on patients′ severity of illness, ADL and different 24 h direct nursing time. These grades match the existing four grading nursing care levels to become refined sub-levels. Conclusions Patients can be graded according to their conditions, ADL and the 24 h direct nursing time needed. Such a new method is more objective, specific and quantitative than before, conducive to upgrading fine management level of nursing.

Study on the assessment of clinical nursing grade / 中国实用护理杂志

Objective To explore the concordance of nursing grades which are ordered by the nurses and the standards of nursing grade and the inpatients' needs. Methods 120 inpatients were rated using the three methods respectively, which were the nurses' order, the standards of musing grade and Bartbel index, and then compare the concordance of the nursing grades rated by the three. Results Then nurses' order was of well concordance with the standards of nursing grade and Barthel index,and the Kappa value was 0.862,0.611,P<0.01,respectively. Conclusions The nurses' order accords with the standards of nursing grade and the patients' needs, is helpful to develop the clinical work, and should be spreaded and exploited.