Construction of humanistic care ability index system for neonatal intensive care unit nurses / 中国实用护理杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective To construct a neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) nurses′humanistic care ability evaluation index system based on knowledge, attitude, belief, practice model, thus to provide quantitative basis for the NICU nurses′ ability of humanistic care evaluation. Methods Through semi-structured interviews summed up the nursing care behavior item pool based on the knowledge, attitude, belief, practice model, used Delphi method to construct the NICU nurses′ humanistic care ability index system. Results The recovery rate of the two rounds were 87.5% (28/32) and 100.0% (32/32) respectively. The humanistic care ability included knowledge, belief, caring behavior and caring sense,11 secondary indicators and 30 level 3 indicators. The variation coefficient was 0.094-0.286. Conclusions This study scientificly and reliablly establish NICU nurses′humanistic ability index system, which can be used to evaluate and to study the status of NICU nurses′ humanistic care ability, and to strengthen the humanity quality education, to reduce the dispute of nurses and patients has important significance.