title: Designing and validity evaluation of Quality of Nursing Care Scale in Intensive Care Units.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Quality of nursing care measurement is essential in critical care units. The aim of this study was to develop a scale to measure the quality of nursing care in intensive care units (ICUs).
  
  
  METHODS
  The 68 items of nursing care standards in critical care settings were explored in a literature review. Then, 30 experts evaluated the items' content validity index (CVI) and content validity ratio (CVR). Items with a low CVI score (< 0.78) and low CVR score (< 0.33) were removed from the scale.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The 50 items remained in the scale. The Scale level-CVI and Scale level-CVR were 0.898 and 0.725, respectively.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The nursing care scale in ICU (Quality of Nursing Care Scale- ICU) that was developed in this research had acceptable CVI and CVR.
authors.forename: Mashaalah
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Zeraati
authors.forename: Negin Masoudi
authors.initials: NM
authors.lastname: Alavi
mesh_terms: D002983:Clinical Competence / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D003422:Critical Care / Q000592:standards* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006801:Humans; D007492:Iran; D009730:Nursing Assessment; D009732:Nursing Care / Q000592:standards* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D016730:Program Development; D011594:Psychometrics; D011787:Quality of Health Care / Q000592:standards* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires