Validation of a nursing report for a pediatric intensive care unit

A methodological study regarding the validation of a nursing report for a teaching hospital in the Northwest region of Paraná. The instrument, built in a previous stage, was elaborated with information obtained in a review of pertinent literature and empirical evidence pointed out by nurses who experience these units. The temporary version was submitted to a board of evaluators (March-November/2014), whose expertise contributed to the evaluation process of appearance and content (analysis, rearrangement, refinement, finalization).

Results

The Pertinence of Content criterion, relative to the topics of the instrument, reached the highest levels of agreement among the evaluators (78-100%). The topics that did not reach the pre-defined agreement level were replaced, excluded or reformulated. The restructured instrument was revalued by the evaluators, obtaining satisfactory agreement levels in all the criteria (78-100%).

Conclusions

The final version was validated in terms of appearance and content, and is suitable to be used.

Nursing; Pediatric intensive care units; Data collection; Nursing processes; Validation studies

Human Response Pattern (topics and items)	Evaluator Agreement Level

	Form and Presentation %	Ease of reading and completing %	Clarity and ease of understanding %	Content relevance %	Adequate ordering %
Anamnesis	78	78	67	89	33
Mother’s obstetric background	67	78	67	78	44
Patterns of health perception - health control	89	78	100	78	77
Role-relationship pattern	89	100	89	78	89
Activity/exercise-sleep/rest pattern	44	44	55	100	55
Genitourinary-reproductive pattern	44	44	67	78	55
Gastrointestinal/abdominal-nutritional pattern	44	44	55	89	55
Perceptive-cognitive pattern	78	78	78	100	89
Confrontation/stress tolerance pattern	78	78	89	100	67
Cardiovascular-bloodstream pattern	67	67	78	89	89
Thoracic and respiratory pattern - oxygenation	78	78	78	100	89
Functional/locomotion pattern - cutaneous-mucous integrity	66	66	77	89	100

Human Response Pattern (topics and items)	Evaluator Agreement Level

	Form and Presentation %	Ease of reading and completing %	Clarity and ease of understanding %	Content relevance %	Adequate ordering %
Anamnesis	86	100	85	93	83
Mother’s obstetric background	92	99	89	95	87
Patterns of health perception - health control	91	88	100	88	94
Role-relationship pattern	92	100	98	95	100
Activity/exercise-sleep/rest pattern	78	79	84	100	89
Genitourinary-reproductive pattern	82	82	92	89	88
Gastrointestinal/ abdominal-nutritional pattern	81	80	93	93	91
Cognitive-perceptive pattern	86	89	93	100	97
Confrontation/stress tolerance pattern	93	91	87	100	91
Cardiovascular-bloodstream pattern	87	81	92	94	93
Thoracic and respiratory pattern - oxygenation	91	84	94	100	95
Functional/locomotion pattern - cutaneous-mucous integrity	90	89	91	89	100

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[1] Corresponding author: Jussara Simone LenziPupulim. E-mail: jslpupulim@uem.br