Developing children's nursing care outcome statements in Africa using World Café methods.
Minette Coetzee, Angela Leonard, Candice Bonaconsa and 2 others
PMID 32893340WHAT IT FOUND
Children's nurses in Africa defined care outcomes focusing on family engagement, such as facilitating mother-child interaction and involving mothers in pain and nutrition management.
These statements describe nursing work but are not yet tested metrics.
Key findings
01Nurses facilitate mothers' active participation in caring for the child while mediating wider social and environmental influences affecting the child's health and wellbeing.
02Nurses approach each child's pain on an individual basis, involving the mother in assessing, planning, implementing and evaluating appropriate pharmacological and non-pharmacological pain management.
03The resulting statements describe the work of children's nurses but are not yet an implementable metrics framework.
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What it does not show
The findings are not generalizable beyond the specific group of conference delegates. The statements were framed by researchers' initial domain definitions, which may have constrained participant input. This is not an experimental design, so the quality of the statements reflects consensus rather than tested efficacy. The product is not yet an implementable metrics framework, so these cannot currently be used to measure performance.
Declared interests
Funding was provided by the ELMA Foundation. No other conflicts of interest were declared in the provided text.
The easy way to misread this
Do not use these statements as validated metrics or quality indicators. They are descriptive consensus statements from a workshop and have not been tested for reliability or validity in measuring nursing performance.