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The Effect of an Education Program on Inter-rater Reliability of Neonatal/Infant Braden Q Scale for Clinical Nurses

신생아중환자실 간호사를 대상으로 한 Neonatal/Infant Braden Q Scale 사용교육이 측정자 간 일치도에 미치는 효과

  • Park, Soon Mi (Department of Nursing, Pusan National University Yangsan Hospital) ;
  • Song, Jeong Hwa (Department of Nursing, Pusan National University Yangsan Hospital) ;
  • Kim, Mi Ran (Department of Nursing, Pusan National University Yangsan Hospital) ;
  • Jeong, Ihn Sook (College of Nursing, Pusan National University)
  • 박순미 (양산부산대학교병원 간호부 소아간호팀) ;
  • 송정화 (양산부산대학교병원 간호부) ;
  • 김미란 (양산부산대학교병원 간호부) ;
  • 정인숙 (부산대학교 간호대학)
  • Received : 2015.03.17
  • Accepted : 2015.06.26
  • Published : 2015.08.31

Abstract

Purpose: This study was aimed to investigate the effect of an education program on inter-rater agreement of Neonatal/Infant Braden Q Scale for clinical nurses working at a neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). Methods: This was single-arm pre and post experimental study. The participants were 12 nurses and 128 hospitalized neonates at a NICU from December, 2012 to March, 2013. Twelve nurses were divided into four different groups; for two groups were assigned nurses with 3 to 5 years of clinical experiences, and for the others with less than 1 year of clinical experience. The interventions were given by one wound ostomy specialist and two NICU nurses with over 5 years of clinical experiences for 1 hour twice. The inter-rater agreement was measured by intraclass-correlation coefficient. Results: Overall inter-rater agreement was improved from .87(95% CI: .80~.92) at the pre-test to .94(.91~.96) at post-test. Each inter-rater agreement except moisture and nutrition was also improved. Conclusion: The developed education program on scoring for Neonatal/Infant Braden Q scale was effective to improve the inter-rater agreement among clinical nurses. We suggest to privide an education for NICU nurse before using the Neonatal/Infant Braden Q scale in clinical settings.

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