Nursing research
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Establishing the feasibility and validity of implementation fidelity monitoring strategies is an important methodological step in implementing evidence-based interventions on a large scale. ⋯ The results suggest that the Fidelity Checklist is a feasible, reliable, and valid measure of group leader implementation fidelity in a group-based parenting intervention. Future research will be focused on testing the Fidelity Checklist with diverse and larger samples and generalizing to other group-based interventions using a similar intervention model.
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Comparative Study
Longitudinal analysis of personal and work-related factors associated with turnover among nurses.
Although many scholars have acknowledged the relationship between personal and work-related factors associated with job search and actual turnover, there is a lack of longitudinal designs that test this relationship empirically. ⋯ Healthcare organizations should pay attention to preventive measures to protect labor market potential. Recommendations are made for human resource development in healthcare organizations and for further empirical research to better understand to what extent different policy systems across the European countries explain variance in outcomes.
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Statistical significance is often misinterpreted as proof or scientific evidence of importance. This article addresses the most common statistical reporting error in the biomedical literature, namely, confusing statistical significance with clinical importance. ⋯ Statistical significance is not an objective measure and does not provide an escape from the requirement for the researcher to think carefully and judge the clinical and practical importance of a study's results.
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Randomized Controlled Trial
Skin-to-skin contact after cesarean delivery: an experimental study.
The effectiveness of skin-to-skin contact (SSC) after vaginal delivery has been shown. After cesarean births, SSC is not done for practical and medical safety reasons because it is believed that infants may suffer mild hypothermia. ⋯ Cesarean-delivered newborns who experienced SSC within 1 hour of delivery are not at risk for hypothermia.
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Research to document the effects of nursing on patient outcomes such as pain has been limited by the inability to measure the quality of nursing care effectively. ⋯ Through this deliberative and iterative process, an instrument was produced that will contribute to the measurement of the quality of nursing and interdisciplinary care related to pain management. The items retained in the PainCQ were understood and judged by hospitalized patients with pain easily. Further psychometric testing of the PainCQ is indicated.