2011 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

Amodel construction and evaluation of monitoring tasks in critical care nursing

Research Project

Project/Area Number	21592782
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
Allocation Type	Single-year Grants
Section	一般
Research Field	Clinical nursing
Research Institution	Toho University
Principal Investigator	FUKUDA Miwako 東邦大学, 看護学部, 准教授 (80318873)
Research Collaborator	OKABE Haruka 東邦大学, 看護学部, 助教 (30438858) MYOUJINN Tetuya 北里大学, 看護学部, 講師 (00521428)
Project Period (FY)	2009 – 2011
Keywords	クリティカルケア看護 / 臨床判断 / モニタリング機能
Research Abstract	This study aimed to clarify the monitoring functions of nurses while engaged in critical care nursing. A model was established for the monitoring function while weaning patients from a respirator and stabilizing their respiratory status. The grounded theory approach using interview data was adopted as the study method. Data was collected from 20 nurses. Each was interviewed two to three times for about 60 minutes per session. It was revealed that the monitoring task includes “setting a rate of increase/decrease of respiratory support” and “putting the patient into a process for establishing spontaneous breathing.” This study enabled us to build a model that describes how the monitoring function contributes to clinical judgments that are made jointly with doctors.

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