Study Protocol for the Development of an African Framework for Critical Care Nursing Based on Ubuntu Using...

Area of Science:

• Nursing
• Critical Care
• Healthcare Frameworks

Background:

• Critical care nursing in Zambia is a new specialty.
• Current documentation uses Roper, Logan and Tierney's Activities of Daily Living and NANDA International (NANDA-I) criteria.
• These models are not critical care or context-specific, posing integration challenges.

Purpose of the Study:

• Explore intensive care nurses' perceptions of current nursing models.
• Develop a new Zambian critical care nursing framework.
• Base the new framework on Ubuntu principles.

Main Methods:

• Two-phase, mixed-methods approach with participatory cooperative inquiry.
• Phase 1: Retrospective review of nursing care plans and documentary data analysis.
• Phase 2: Semi-structured focus groups with intensive care nurses, using framework analysis.

Main Results:

• The study will identify patterns and trends in current nursing documentation.
• Nurse perceptions of existing models will be assessed.
• Findings will inform the development of a new framework.

Conclusions:

• A critical care nursing framework based on Ubuntu will be developed and piloted.
• The new framework aims to enhance nursing care by being context-specific.
• This addresses the need for context-specific critical care nursing practice in Zambia.