DESIGNING AND VALIDATING A TOOL TO ASSESS RISKS AFFECTED HOSPITALIZED PATIENTS IN PORT SAID CITY

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

1 administration,nursing,Mansoura,Dakhalia

2 Administration Department, Faculty of Nursing,El-Zagazig University

3 Administration Department, Faculty of Nursing, PortSaid University

Abstract

Background: Today, maintaining quality while eliminating risk is a major challenge facing everyone in the healthcare delivery system. Also, the Patients, healthcare system expect the best care possible, and as well as administrators of healthcare organizations expect healthcare providers to deliver this best care in the most efficient manner. Design: A methodological research design was used to design and validating a tool to assess risks affected hospitalized patient in Port Said city. Setting: The study was conducted in Port Said General Hospital and El –Zohour Hospital. Subject: A sample of 35 experts (faculty and non-faculty members) in nursing and medical field was recruited (jury group). Opinionnaire validating sheet was used for data collection. Results: The highest percentage of the jury group members agreed upon all items, with no statistically significant differences between the two jury groups. The highly reliability coefficient was for the general work condition domain 0.969, while the lowest was for fire measures domain 0.453. Conclusion: The results demonstrated that the majority of two jury group agreed upon the general form (face validity), content of the environmental risk factors tool. Recommendations: Further studies are needed for testing the applicability of the tool. Generalize the designed tool to be used in other hospitals in the country.
 

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