Effect of Missed Nursing Care on Patient’s Outcomes at Intensive Care Units | ||
| Assiut Scientific Nursing Journal | ||
| Articles in Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available Online from 25 March 2025 | ||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/asnj.2025.350236.1987 | ||
| Authors | ||
| Asmaa Ahmed Mohammed* 1; Naglaa Ahmed Ahmed2; Mohamed Hasan Bakri3 | ||
| 1Critical Care and Emergency Nursing, faculty of nursing, Assiut University, Assiut, Egypt | ||
| 2critical care and emergency department faculty of nursing Assiut univeristy Assiut,egypt | ||
| 3Professor of anesthesia Faculty of medicine, Assiut University | ||
| Abstract | ||
| Background: Missed care is an international problem as most nurses report at least one task left undone in a shift. It is a phenomenon where nursing care unintentionally omitted or not completed. Aim the study: To assess the effect of missed nursing care on critically ill patients’ outcomes in ICU. Research design: A descriptive correlational design was used in this study. Setting: This study was conducted at ICUs in Al-Mabarrah Hospital of Health Insurance and Assiut University Hospital. Sample: The study subjects were included a convenience sampling of all critical care nurses who work in the previous mentioned setting. Tools: Tool one: Nurse characteristics assessment tool; tool two: The missed nursing care questionnaire; tool three: Clinical outcome assessment sheet. Results: It was found that most nurses had a moderate level of missed care with satisfactory reasons. the most of patient’s hospital stay were > 10 days. There was relation between total score of Missed Nursing Care and patient’s outcomes (p. 0.001**). Conclusion: the study concluded that most ICU nurses had a moderate level of missed care and there was a relation between the total score of Missed Care levels and total score of clinical outcomes. Recommendations: Improving the quality of nursing care through increase number of nurse staff. Periodic providing positive incentive for nurses’ staff. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| Missed nursing care; ICU patients; clinical outcomes | ||
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