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Comfort measures provided by critical care nurses as rated on a Nursing Comfort Measures Scale
- Date Issued:
- 1994
- Summary:
- This study presents the development and testing of a tool, the Nursing Comfort Measures Scale, to measure comfort delivered by nurses to patients. The tool was shown to have excellent reliability in the form of internal consistency and test-retest reliability and was also found by a panel of experts to have content validity. The Nursing Comfort Measures Scale was then tested among a group of 50 critical care nurses. Overall, they were found to be delivering comfort often to their patients. Nurses were also found to be delivering fewer comfort measures within the spiritual, environmental, and physical domains.
Title: | Comfort measures provided by critical care nurses as rated on a Nursing Comfort Measures Scale. |
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Name(s): |
Pitcher, Diana Lynn Florida Atlantic University, Degree grantor Bruce, Nancie, Thesis advisor |
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Type of Resource: | text | |
Genre: | Electronic Thesis Or Dissertation | |
Issuance: | monographic | |
Date Issued: | 1994 | |
Publisher: | Florida Atlantic University | |
Place of Publication: | Boca Raton, Fla. | |
Physical Form: | application/pdf | |
Extent: | 103 p. | |
Language(s): | English | |
Summary: | This study presents the development and testing of a tool, the Nursing Comfort Measures Scale, to measure comfort delivered by nurses to patients. The tool was shown to have excellent reliability in the form of internal consistency and test-retest reliability and was also found by a panel of experts to have content validity. The Nursing Comfort Measures Scale was then tested among a group of 50 critical care nurses. Overall, they were found to be delivering comfort often to their patients. Nurses were also found to be delivering fewer comfort measures within the spiritual, environmental, and physical domains. | |
Identifier: | 15101 (digitool), FADT15101 (IID), fau:11878 (fedora) | |
Note(s): |
Christine E. Lynn College of Nursing Thesis (M.S.N.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1994. |
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Subject(s): |
Intensive care nursing Caring Nurse and patient Human comfort Pain--Nursing |
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Held by: | Florida Atlantic University Libraries | |
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Sublocation: | Digital Library | |
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Host Institution: | FAU | |
Is Part of Series: | Florida Atlantic University Digital Library Collections. |