title: [Nursing outcome indicator validation for patients with orthopedic problems].
abstract: This is a descriptive, cross-sectional content validation study, with a quantitative approach, carried out in a university hospital. The objective of this study was to validate four nursing outcomes' indicators of the Nursing Outcomes Classification--NOC for the nursing diagnosis Selfcare Deficit: Bathing/Hygiene presented by patients in postoperative of orthopedic surgery. An instrument containing the outcomes indicators Selfcare: Activities of Daily Living, Selfcare: Bathing, Selfcare: Hygiene and Selfcare: Oral Hygiene was built, along with a Likert scale ranging from 1 to 5 (1 = not important, 5 = extremely important). The experts were nurses who care for these patients for at least a year and make use of nursing diagnoses. Descriptive statistics were used for the data analysis. Out of the 34 indicators studied, 2 (6%) were considered as main temporary indicators, 22 (65%) as secondary temporary indicators and 10 (29%) were discarded. The main and secondary temporary indicators will be used during the bathing observation of patients in postoperative of Total Hip Replacement, and their development will be monitored.
authors.affiliation: Escola de Enfermagem da Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, RS, Brasil. miriam.abreu@terra.com.br
authors.forename: Miriam de Abreu
authors.initials: Mde A
authors.lastname: Almeida
authors.forename: Deborah Hein
authors.initials: DH
authors.lastname: Seganfredo
authors.forename: Margarita Rubin
authors.initials: MR
authors.lastname: Unicovsky
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D019637:Orthopedic Procedures / Q000451:nursing*; D016896:Treatment Outcome