- Title
- Perceptions of registered nurses regarding implementation of clinical practice guidelines in intensive care units in public hospitals
- Creator
- Nondywana, Precious Nosindiso
- Subject
- Intensive care nursing -- South Africa
- Subject
- Intensive care units Nurses -- South Africa -- Attitudes Hospitals -- Employees
- Date Issued
- 2018
- Date
- 2018
- Type
- Thesis
- Type
- Masters
- Type
- MCur
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10948/33464
- Identifier
- vital:32876
- Description
- An intensive care unit (ICU) is a specialised section of the hospital that provides comprehensive and continuous care for people who are critically ill and can be admitted for more individualised and intense monitoring. The decision-making process in the intensive care unit requires clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) to assist practitioners’ and patients’ decisions about the appropriate healthcare for specific clinical circumstances. The major benefit of CPGs is to improve the quality of care received by patients and has a potential to reduce morbidity and mortality. Although CPGs are popular for health care decision making by health care providers, there is a general lack of implementation in the nursing sphere. The aim of this study therefore, was to explore and describe the perceptions of registered nurses with regard to the implementation of CPGs in intensive care units in public hospitals and to make recommendations for the implementation thereof. A qualitative, explorative, descriptive and contextual study was conducted. The research population were registered nurses who are employed in intensive care units in three public hospitals in Nelson Mandela Bay in Port Elizabeth. Purposive sampling was utilised. Semi-structured interviews were used to collect the data and Tesch’s steps of data analysis were used. An independent coder analysed the raw data. Themes were identified and grouped together to form new categories. The researcher ensured the trustworthiness of the study by adhering to Lincoln and Guba’s model of trustworthiness, which consists of the following four constructs, namely: credibility, transferability, dependability and conformability. The researcher ensured that the study was conducted in an ethical manner by adhering to ethical principles such as autonomy, beneficence, non-maleficence, confidentiality and justice.
- Format
- xv, 116 leaves
- Format
- Publisher
- Nelson Mandela University
- Publisher
- Faculty of Health Sciences
- Language
- English
- Rights
- Nelson Mandela University
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