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Clinical utility of the Care Dependency Scale for Rehabilitation

  • Increasing costs within health care require an efficient use of time and staff in order to appropriately satisfy patients’ needs. The application of valid and reliable instruments enables nurses to determine patients’ care needs. However, to ensure acceptance in nursing practice, assessment instruments must not only be reliable and valid, but also practical and useful. One such instrument for rehabilitation is the Care Dependency Scale for rehabilitation. The scale has been used in rehabilitation, but so far it has not been evaluated from the nurses’ perspective. Therefore, this study aims to determine how nurses evaluate the clinical utility of the Care Dependency Scale for rehabilitation. In this context the application and testing of a staff view assessment instrument was deemed necessary, and this constitutes the second aim of the study. Nurses from several Austrian rehabilitation units were asked to complete the staff view assessment instrument to evaluate the Care Dependency Scale for rehabilitation. Ethical approval wasIncreasing costs within health care require an efficient use of time and staff in order to appropriately satisfy patients’ needs. The application of valid and reliable instruments enables nurses to determine patients’ care needs. However, to ensure acceptance in nursing practice, assessment instruments must not only be reliable and valid, but also practical and useful. One such instrument for rehabilitation is the Care Dependency Scale for rehabilitation. The scale has been used in rehabilitation, but so far it has not been evaluated from the nurses’ perspective. Therefore, this study aims to determine how nurses evaluate the clinical utility of the Care Dependency Scale for rehabilitation. In this context the application and testing of a staff view assessment instrument was deemed necessary, and this constitutes the second aim of the study. Nurses from several Austrian rehabilitation units were asked to complete the staff view assessment instrument to evaluate the Care Dependency Scale for rehabilitation. Ethical approval was obtained. Results indicate that the staff view assessment instrument enables evaluation of the clinical utility of the Care Dependency Scale for rehabilitation. Most nurses agree that the Care Dependency Scale for rehabilitation is a clinically useful instrument, improves communication and cooperation within the nursing team and is easy and quick to use/analyse/ interpret. It may therefore be recommended for application in daily nursing practice.show moreshow less

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Author: Juliane Eichhorn-Kissel, Christa Lohrmann, Theo Dassen
URL:https://www.researchgate.net/publication/244919441_The_clinical_utility_of_the_Care_Dependency_Scale_in_rehabilitation_nurses%27_perception
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1177/1744987110369461
ISSN:1744-9871
ISSN:1744-988X
Title of the source (English):Journal of Research in Nursing
Document Type:Scientific journal article not peer-reviewed
Language:English
Year of publication:2010
Tag:Care; Care Dependency; Nurse; Rehabilitation
Volume/Year:15
Issue number:6
First Page:547
Last Page:561
Faculty/Chair:Fakultät 4 Humanwissenschaften (bis 2023 Soziale Arbeit, Gesundheit und Musik) / FG Pflegewissenschaft und klinische Pflege
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