Study Protocol for the Development of an African Framework for Critical Care Nursing Based on Ubuntu Using Participatory Cooperative Inquiry: Decolonising Care.
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Abstract
Background: Critical care nursing in Zambia is a new speciality that has adopted traditional nursing documentation and currently uses the Roper, Logan and Tierney's Activities of Daily Living combined with NANDA International (NANDA-I) criteria. It is a cause for concern that these models are based on different high-income domains and are not critical care or context-specific, making integration and application in practice challenging. Therefore, there is an urgent need to develop a Zambian context-specific critical care nursing framework.
Aims: This study aims to explore intensive care nurses' perceptions of the applicability of currently used nursing models and theories and to develop a new Zambian critical care nursing framework based on the principles of Ubuntu.
Methods: This study will employ a two-phase, mixed-methods approach using a participatory cooperative inquiry design. Phase 1 includes a retrospective review of nursing care plan documentation. This will allow for the identification of the current use of nursing models and theories. Phase 1 utilises documentary data analysis to identify key nursing documentation. Descriptive statistics and, where possible, significant difference will be used to determine patterns and trends. Phase 2 will utilise the findings from phase 1 as the basis for semi-structured focus groups with intensive care nurses within the study site. Total population sampling will be used; therefore, all nurses will be invited to participate. Framework analysis will be used to analyse the qualitative data sets.
Conclusion: The outcomes will illustrate the efficiency and effectiveness of nursing documentation and perceptions of using the current nursing model. The findings will be combined to develop a critical care nursing framework based on Ubuntu, which will then be piloted.
Relevance to clinical practice: This study has been designed in response to recognition that critical care nursing practice needs to context specific to enhance the nursing care provided.
期刊介绍：
Nursing in Critical Care is an international peer-reviewed journal covering any aspect of critical care nursing practice, research, education or management. Critical care nursing is defined as the whole spectrum of skills, knowledge and attitudes utilised by practitioners in any setting where adults or children, and their families, are experiencing acute and critical illness. Such settings encompass general and specialist hospitals, and the community. Nursing in Critical Care covers the diverse specialities of critical care nursing including surgery, medicine, cardiac, renal, neurosciences, haematology, obstetrics, accident and emergency, neonatal nursing and paediatrics.
Papers published in the journal normally fall into one of the following categories:
-research reports
-literature reviews
-developments in practice, education or management
-reflections on practice
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