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Nursing research priorities in internal medicine nursing practice: an Italian Delphi study
D S Di Massimo1, G Catania2, A Bertolin3
1Nurse of Medical Units, Biella Hospital, Biella, Italy.
Introduction:
In order to develop an effective and accountable nursing practice is necessary to launch research projects through coordinated studies and one of the main strategies to achieve this goal is to define research priorities.
Methods:
he aim of this study is define the nursing priority research in Internal Medicine and explore the possibility to define the nursing priority research in Internal Medicine. This is an observational study using a three-round Delphi method.
Results:
Fifty-five nurses (77%) completed all three rounds. Two hundred eighty-four research priorities were recorded, organized in eighty areas. The technical - care and organized - management are the areas in which were identify more priorities.
Conclusions:
The top five priorities, identify as the most important, suggest the attention of Italian nurses in care of patients, management and in safe-care.
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