Kontakt 2010, 12(4):407-413 | DOI: 10.32725/kont.2010.054

Proposal of criteria for selection of experts for validation of nursing diagnoses in the Czech Republic and Slovak RepublicNursing

Renáta Zeleníková^1,*, Katarína Žiaková², Juraj Čáp², Darja Jarošová¹, Yvetta Vrublová¹

¹ Ostravská univerzita v Ostravě, Lékařská fakulta, Ústav ošetřovatelství a porodní asistence

² Jesseniova lekárska fakulta Univerzity Komenského v Martine, Ústav ošetrovateľstva

In the validation of nursing diagnoses, which has a superior position in the research in the field of the nursing diagnostics, there is an important role of a group of nurses-specialists. Validation studies cannot be performed without their cooperation. A consequent choice of a group of experts is an important step in the process of the validation of nursing diagnoses. Accurate criteria for the identification of experts were delimited by Fehring in 1994 (Fehring, 1994, p. 59), but they cannot be employed in any country to their whole extent. The authors of particular validation studies use their partial modifications depending on the type of the study and conditions of the particular country. The target of the contribution presented here is to propose criteria of the choice of experts for purposes of validation studies of nursing diagnoses in the Czech Republic and Slovak Republic. The method of the panel discussion was employed for the establishment of criteria, which was implemented in January 2010. The panel of experts included 10 university teachers - 5 specialists from the Czech Republic and 5 specialists from the Slovak Republic. Fehring criteria were modified in such a way that they corresponded to the contemporary condition of the education of nurses in clinical practice. The criteria proposed are divided into the basic and supplementary ones. The basic classical criteria considered by the authors of the contribution are education in the branch nursing and clinical practice with at least one-year affiliation in the field adequate to the nursing diagnosis in question. The supplementing criteria are the specialty/certification in the field of the clinical practice with taking into account the relevant area of the nursing diagnosis, diploma, rigorous or dissertation theses in problems of nursing diagnostics and a published article (of research or theoretical nature) in the field of nursing diagnostics in a professional journal. Points were assigned to particular criteria from 1 to 3 provided that the expert is a nurse achieving the total number of 4 points. The criteria proposed can be achieved and are optimal for the choice of a group of experts in the field of validation of nursing diagnoses in the Czech Republic and Slovak Republic and they will be tested in validation studies of nursing diagnoses selected.

Keywords: nurse; expert; nursing diagnosis; validation; validation study

Received: August 30, 2010; Accepted: December 1, 2010; Published: December 22, 2010  Show citation