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Assessment and Evaluation of the High Risk Neonate: The NICU Network Neurobehavioral Scale
Published on: August 25, 2014
Construction and validation of nursing diagnoses for premature newborns
Danielle Lemos Querido1, Marialda Moreira Christoffel2, Viviane Saraiva de Almeida1
1Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Maternidade Escola, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil.
Objective:
To build and validate nursing diagnoses based on the International Classification of Nursing Practice (ICNP®) for premature newborns admitted to the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit.
Method:
Methodological study based on the Brazilian method for developing subsets: use of specialized nursing language terms, construction of diagnostic statements and content validation of the statements by 40 specialist nurses. Those with a Content Validity Index (CVI) ≥ 0.80, organized according to Wanda Horta's basic human needs theory, were considered valid.
Results:
146 nursing diagnosis statements were constructed and 145 (93.3%) diagnoses were validated, with a predominance of the human need for cutaneous-mucosal integrity.
Conclusion:
The specificity of neonatal care is evident when these diagnoses are presented and validated in order to support nurses in their clinical reasoning and decision-making.
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