Construction of the evaluation index system of nursing counterpart support by ClassIII Grade A hospitals for country hospitals

Abstract

Objective To construct an evaluation index system of nursing counterpart support by ClassⅢ Grade A hospitals for country hospitals so as to provide a ruler for evaluating the quality of nursing counterpart support and provide a reference for sounding the long-term mechanism of counterpart support. Methods This study combed the counterpart support policy document of China from 2009 to 2018 to refine nursing work assignment and goals, collected index pool by carrying out expert interview and searching literature. Expert meeting was used to sort out the items of index pool. After that, this study designed the inquiry questionnaire, implemented pilot survey and two rounds of expert consultation for 20 experts with Delphi method to determine the index system. Analytic hierarchy process was used to build judgment matrix so as to confirm the index weight. Results Among two rounds of expert consultation, the recovery rates of questionnaire were all 100%; the expert authority coefficients were 0.817 and 0.838; the coordination coefficients were 0.117 and 0.247. The final evaluation index system of nursing counterpart support by ClassⅢ Grade A hospitals for country hospitals included three first-level indexes, hospital organizational leadership, accredited personnel management and synthetic evaluation, as well as 7 second-level indexes and 48 third-level indexes. Conclusions This index system could be a tool for evaluating the nursing counterpart support. Key words: Nursing administration research; Index system; Assessment and evaluation; Counterpart support