Pediatric critical care nursing research
priorities — initiating international dialogue

Tume, LN; Coetzee, M; Dryden-Palmer, K; Hickey, P; Kinney, S; Latour, J; Pedreira, M; Sefton, G; Sorce, L; Curley, MAQ

Abstract

Objective: To identify and prioritize research questions of concern
to the practice of pediatric critical care nursing practice.
Design: One-day consensus conference. By using a conceptual
framework by Benner et al describing domains of practice in critical
care nursing, nine international nurse researchers presented stateof-
the-art lectures. Each identified knowledge gaps in their assigned
practice domain and then poised three research questions
to fill that
gap. Then, meeting participants prioritized the proposed research
questions using an interactive multivoting process.
Setting: Seventh World Congress on Pediatric Intensive and Critical
Care in Istanbul, Turkey.
Participants: Pediatric critical care nurses and nurse scientists
attending the open consensus meeting.
Interventions: Systematic review, gap analysis, and interactive
multivoting.
Measurements and Main Results: The participants prioritized 27
nursing research questions in nine content domains. The top four
research questions were 1) identifying nursing interventions that
directly impact the child and family’s experience during the withdrawal
of life support, 2) evaluating the long-term psychosocial
impact of a child’s critical illness on family outcomes, 3) articulating
core nursing competencies that prevent unstable situations from
deteriorating into crises, and 4) describing the level of nursing education
and experience in pediatric critical care that has a protective
effect on the mortality and morbidity of critically ill children.
Conclusions: The consensus meeting was effective in organizing
pediatric critical care nursing knowledge, identifying knowledge
gaps and in prioritizing nursing research initiatives that could be
used to advance nursing science across world regions

Citation

priorities — initiating international dialogue. Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, 16(6), e174-e182. https://doi.org/10.1097/PCC.0000000000000446

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Publication Date: Jan 1, 2015
• Deposit Date: Sep 11, 2019
• Journal: Pediatric Critical Care Medicine
• Print ISSN: 1529-7535
• Publisher: Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins
• Volume: 16
• Issue: 6
• Pages: e174-e182
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1097/PCC.0000000000000446
• Publisher URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/PCC.0000000000000446
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