The Omission of Nursing Care

Paper Summary:

The paper explains that the purpose of the study was to determine the different types of nursing care missed by staff in a medical-surgical unit setting and the reasons behind the omission of these routine care procedures. The paper looks at the data collection methods and the data analysis procedures. The paper examines the two major strengths and the two major limitations of the study and relates that the validity of the findings in this study may be strengthened by expanding replication studies on this subject to other specialties and patient subsets.

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Problem
Study Purpose
Study Design
Subjects and Setting
Data Collection Methods
Data Analysis Procedures
Strengths/Limitations

From the Paper:

"The problem the study was conducted to address was that of determining frequently omitted routine nursing care and why these aspects of care are being omitted.
The problem is an important one for nursing to study because of its impacts on patients, their families and the entire nursing staff. With regard to patients, the omission of certain types of routine care on the part of the nursing staff may have unapparent ramifications at first (e.g. patient education, early ambulation) but may have disastrous consequences after discharge or in the following hospital days (e.g. readmission or emergence of life-threatening complications). With regard to families, the omission of these seemingly mundane tasks by the nursing staff can reflect a grossly inaccurate, if not negative image of apathy on the part of the entire staff, if not the entire hospital."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Kalisch, J. (2006). Missed Nursing Care: A Qualitative Study. Journal of Nursing Care Quality, 21(4), 306-313.

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