REVIEW ARTICLE
Nursing Research Priorities based on the Nurse-sensitive Indicators: Scoping Review
Afaf Hakami1, *, Fazal Hussain2, Anas Bakheet3, Khalid Alghamdi4, Khalid AlAtrash5
Article Information
Identifiers and Pagination:
Year: 2023Volume: 17
E-location ID: e187443462304190
Publisher ID: e187443462304190
DOI: 10.2174/18744346-v17-e230508-2023-29
Article History:
Received Date: 26/2/2023Revision Received Date: 25/3/2023
Acceptance Date: 11/4/2023
Electronic publication date: 09/05/2023
Collection year: 2023
open-access license: This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0), a copy of which is available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode. This license permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Abstract
Background:
Patient-centeredness, safety, and quality of care are major healthcare concerns worldwide. Clinical indicators are essential for monitoring and evaluating safety and quality of care within the health care system. Therefore, research on clinical indicators can improve the quality of care, promote good practices, clarify key concepts, and identify gaps vital to nursing care.
Objective:
The study aims to explore nurse-sensitive indicators to find significant research areas and prioritize them.
Design:
The study design is exploratory research conducted through scoping review, followed by Delphi consultation to identify nurse-sensitive indicators applicable in the Saudi Arabia health care system and prioritize these indicators as research areas.
Results:
The most frequently cited indicators are patient fall, medication error, patient satisfaction, catheter-associated infection, pain, pressure ulcer, the incidence of deep vein thrombosis or pulmonary embolism, appropriate levels of nursing skill mix, and nursing initial and need assessment. The result shows that (33) NSIs are essential to the quality of nursing care and patient safety in Saudi Arabia.
Conclusion:
Patient-centeredness, patient safety, a healthy work environment, and a nursing informatics system are significant research dimensions. We found that nurse satisfaction, patient satisfaction, pressure ulcers, patient falls, nurse-patient communication, patient engagement, and pain management are research priorities.
Recommendations:
Further studies must be conducted on NSIs that address patient-centeredness, safety, a healthy work environment, and a nursing informatics system. It can be observed that most of the studies focused on outcome indicators, and there is a need to study patient-reported indicators as a significant patient-centered concept.
