DSNCPD-ICU: Difficulty Scale for Nurses who Care for Patients with Delirium in the Intensive Care Unit

2023

A workforce measure comprising a 33-item main scale and a four-item additional scale about ICU nurses' difficulties in delirium care. It does not assess the patient's delirium status.

Classification

Experience and impactUse in intensive care units Detailed phenomenological and/or neuropsychological assessment

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Original paper

Principal sourceOwaki N, Tanaka M, Kawakami A. Development of a scale measuring the difficulties faced by nurses who care for patients with delirium in intensive care units. Australian critical care : official journal of the Confederation of Australian Critical Care Nurses. 2023;36(4):455-463. doi: 10.1016/j.aucc.2022.03.011. PMID: 35595665.
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At a glance

Purpose: Experience and impact
Population: Intensive-care nurses
Setting: Intensive care
Time: self-completed nurse questionnaire; formal completion time not reported
Items: 37
Score or threshold: None for delirium detection or diagnosis

Evidence

Evidence maturityNo eligible DTA study identified

More evidence and citation details

Full name: Difficulty Scale for Nurses who Care for Patients with Delirium in the Intensive Care Unit
Evidence summary: psychometric-development-with-later-cross-cultural-validation
Source-study sample: n = 211
Citation: Owaki N, et al. Development of a scale measuring the difficulties faced by nurses who care for patients with delirium in intensive care units Australian Critical Care. 2023;36(4):455-463. PMID 35595665

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