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Construction and content validation of a checklist for effective communication of nursing care to newborns
Mychelangela de Assis Brito1, Cristianne Teixeira Carneiro1, Ruth Cardoso Rocha1
1Universidade Federal do Piauí. Floriano, Piauí, Brazil.
Objectives:
to construct and validate the content of a checklist to support communication of nursing care for newborns admitted to a neonatal intensive care unit.
Methods:
a methodological study conducted in two stages. The first involved three dimensions: theoretical, grounded in an integrative literature review; operational, with the development of the initial version of the checklist; and empirical, carried out through the "Plan, Do, Check, Act" cycle with the participation of 15 nurses from a neonatal intensive care unit. The second stage consisted of content validation by 19 experts, using the Content Validity Ratio.
Results:
the final checklist consisted of 84 items, distributed as follows: 31 items in the Procedures category, 23 in Checking, and 30 in Documentation. The overall Content Validity Ratio reached an average of 0.948.
Conclusions:
the checklist was validated in terms of content by consensus of the expert committee and can be used in clinical practice.
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