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Erika Bassi RN, MSN, PhD student in Nursing Science University of Rome "Tor Vergata" Via Montpellier, 1 - 00133 Rome, Italy IT [email protected] Gloria Gianesini, RN, MSN, PhD student in Nursing Science Department of Biomedicine and Prevention University of Rome "Tor Vergata" Via Montpellier, 1 - 00133 Rome, Italy IT [email protected] Daniela Tartaglini, Associate professor Nursing Degree Courses Università Campus Biomedico Rome IT [email protected] Alvisa Palese, Associate professor Nursing Degree Courses Udine University Udine IT [email protected] ITALIAN MISSCARE SURVEY: VALIDATION OF A REVISED VERSION TO BETTER IDENTIFY PREVALENCE AND PATTERN OF MISSED NURSING CARE AMONG ITALIAN MEDICAL AND SURGICAL UNITS. Missed Nursing Care (MNC) refers to any aspect of required care that is omitted either in part or in a whole or delayed. MNC is an emerging area of concern in nursing: due to the increasing complexity in patient care needs and the effect of the economic downturn on the nursing workforces, nurses are at risk to omit or delay care. Underuse of nursing care has been reported under multiple labels (missed care, implicit rationing of nursing care, tasks left undone) and most often assessed by nurse self-report. All the surveys involve an inventory of nursing activities to which nurse respondents indicate the perceived frequency that each activity was left unfinished. In 2012 the Missed Nursing Care Survey (MISSCARE) by B. Kalish was translated and validated into Italian. Despite the Italian MISSCARE Survey was shown to have good psychometric properties, both the range of items and the wording need to be revised in order to better fit the cultural and organizational changes occurred in the Italian healthcare context. Considering a sample of medical and surgical units from 10 Italian hospitals, the aim of this multicentre cross-sectional study is to validate a revised version of the Italian MISSCARE Survey, identify prevalence and pattern of MNC as well as nurse related outcomes (eg. job satisfaction) and organizational factors. To reliably determine the MNC occurrence represents the first step to understand how nurses set priorities in response to resources scarcity. Emerging findings will be presented at the conference. Keywords: Italian MISSCARE validation, missed nursing care occurence, nurse related outcome Congress Topics: Ethics in the Workplace 17 |