Abstract
dc:description.abstract<p>Critical care nurses are often required to assess a patient’s work of breathing and make clinical decisions based on their findings. There is currently no objective work of breathing assessment tool available. The purpose of this descriptive study was to discover how nurses conceptually describe and assess work of breathing and how they then make objective clinical decisions based on those assessments. Convenience and purposive sampling generated 69 return-by-mail surveys from critical and acute care nurses throughout the country. Descriptive statistics determined frequency distribution and central tendency of the responses. Based on the most popular responses of how nurses describe work of breathing, including use of accessory muscles, ability to speak, pursed lip breathing and respiratory rate, a rough draft of a work of breathing assessment tool was formulated.</p>
Degree
thesis:*- Name thesis:degree_name
- Master of Science
- Level thesis:degree_level
- Master's Thesis
- Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
- Nursing
- Year
- 2003
Author and committee
dc:creator, dc:contributor.*- Author dc:creator
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- Nymann, Randee
- Contributors dc:contributor
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- Luanne Linnard-Palmer, EdD, RN
Subjects
dc:subject × 1Identifiers
dc:identifier.*- Repository record dc:identifier
- https://scholar.dominican.edu/nursing-masters-theses/10
- OAI identifier oai:identifier
- oai:scholar.dominican.edu:nursing-masters-theses-1009