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Area of Science:

  • Nursing Science
  • Healthcare Quality Improvement
  • Patient Safety

Background:

  • Existing tools for missed nursing care, rationing, and tasks left undone are fragmented.
  • A unified instrument is needed to reflect the complexity of current nursing practice.
  • No single tool comprehensively captures the concept of Unfinished Nursing Care.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop and validate a comprehensive tool for measuring Unfinished Nursing Care.
  • To create a single instrument that integrates existing measures.
  • To reflect the broader concept of Unfinished Nursing Care in contemporary practice.

Main Methods:

  • A development and validation study was conducted in 2017.
  • The Unfinished Nursing Care Survey (UNCS) was developed from the MISSCARE Survey and other tools.
  • 1977 nurses from 13 Italian hospitals participated in the validation process, assessing acceptability, construct validity, internal consistency, and criterion validity.

Main Results:

  • 1,400 nurses participated (70.8% response rate).
  • The UNCS has two parts: A (21 items on unfinished care) and B (18 items on reasons for unfinished care).
  • High acceptability (>90%) was reported; Part A showed strong scalability, and Part B's six factors explained 64.3% of the variance with good internal consistency (.806).

Conclusions:

  • The Unfinished Nursing Care Survey (UNCS) is a comprehensive tool for measuring Unfinished Nursing Care.
  • Its development provides a common reference measure for this phenomenon globally.
  • Further investigation into its psychometric properties across different contexts is recommended.