The validation of a nursing diagnosis. A nurse consensus survey.
One thousand clinical nurse specialists were surveyed on the validity of currently identified defining characteristics of ineffective coping (individual). Five hundred professionals, responding to the graphic rating scale, ranked the frequency with which defining characteristics of ineffective coping (individual) are exhibited when the diagnosis is present. Few of the officially accepted defining characteristics were perceived to occur with high frequency in clinical practice.
D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000328:Adult; D001007:Anxiety; D006801:Humans; D008016:Life Change Events; D008875:Middle Aged; D009720:Nurse Clinicians; D009730:Nursing Assessment; D009736:Nursing Process; D011340:Problem Solving; D012380:Role; D012494:Sampling Studies