英文摘要 |
The purposes of this study were to establish and to test an instrument as a nursing assessment scale in weaning ventilator patients. The study proceeded in two phases with developing the instrument to establish physiology and psychology indices for weaning ventilator patients. In the first phase, researcher reviewed literature related to the nursing assessment scale of weaning ventilator, and further discussed with respiratory therapists, chest physicians, head nurses and clinical nurse specialists to collect relevant personal experiences for developing the items of the nursing assessment scale. Twelve experts reviewed the instrument for content validity. In the second phase, the psychometric properties of the nursing assessment scale for weaning ventilator were examined, including internal consistency, reliability and factor analysis. With purpose sampling, and questionnaire survey researcher collected data from 229 patients' nursing documents at a medical center in Taipei. The nursing assessment scale for weaning ventilator were identified by factor analysis to be as follows: (l)physiology problem; (2)psychology problem; (3)infection problem, and (4)medications. These four factors could explain 53.48 % of the variance of the nursing assessment scale. The coefficients of the Cronbach's a for four factors were .84 - .95, respectively. The results demonstrated that the instrument had a satisfactory internal validity and reliability. |