Owen Doody
Senior Lecturer
Title: The development of national nursing process quality care metrics for intellectual disability services in Ireland
Biography
Biography: Owen Doody
Abstract
Nursing process quality care metrics and indicators are quantifiable measures of nursing care that describe nurses care activities. Intellectual disability nursing is often on the fringes as it only a seperate entity in Ireland and in UK. This study aimed to identify intellectual disability nursing quality care process metrics and associated indicators. A two-stage design consisting of a systematic literature review and 4 rounds of a Delphi survey and a consensus meeting was undertaken. From the databases, grey literature and hand searching publications from both academic and practice evidence were gathered. This resulted in 20 existing and 16 new intellectual disability metrics been identified for the Delphi process. 401 intellectual disability nurses were recruited with the overall response rate of over 50% achieved for all rounds. The 4 Delphi survey rounds resulted in 12 metrics and 84 associated indicators achieveing over a 70% consensus. An additional consensus meeting was held with key stakeholders and all 12 metrics and 79 indicators reached the agreed 70% threshold for inclusion in the final suite of metrics developed for implemented into and evaluation in practice.