The design and application of the personalized nursing care plan sheet for critically ill patients in the emergency intensive care unit / 中国实用护理杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective To investigate the effect of the personalized nursing care plan sheet for critically ill patients in the emergency intensive care unit. Methods The personalized nursing care plan sheet including general, personalized nursing issues and related measures was designed according to the standard from the nursing department. A group of 116 critically ill patients were divided into the observational group (58 patients) and control group (58 patients) from January 2012 to September 2014. The personalized nursing care plan sheet were applied for record and hand over in the observational group, while the unified problem statement nursing care plan sheet were used in the control group. The indicators of nursing quality were observed in the two groups and the nurses′satisfaction with the nursing care plan sheets was compared. Results The nursing quality in the observational group was higher than it in the control group with the lower incidence of failure rate in fundamental nursing, professional nursing, plan sheet, disease treatment and adverse event (32.76% vs. 62.07%,37.93% vs. 67.24%,29.31% vs. 68.97%, 20.69% vs. 53.45%, 10.34% vs. 72.41%, the χ2 values were 2.98, 2.98, 4.09, 3.46 and 6.60 respctively, P<0.05). The nurses′satisfaction with the personalized nursing care plan sheet was also higher than the unified problem statement nursing care plan sheet (P<0.05). Conclusion The incidence of nursing defects could be reduced by avoiding the incomplete nursing assessment and omitted nursing plan.