1Associate Professor, Mata Sahib Kaur College of Nursing, Mohali, Punjab
2Principal, College of Nursing, Mohan Dai Oswal Cancer Hospital, Ludhiana
Online published on 11 October, 2012.
The utility of a nursing model as a framework to understand and explain a health phenomenon is fundamental to guide nursing practice. Health assessment is a process whereby a nurse obtains information that delineates clients’ responses to health problems, thus facilitating the planning of appropriate care. Nurses use various types of assessment tools in the hospitals. In the present study, authors studied the acceptability for utilization of Roy Adaptation theory based nursing assessment tool by nurses. A cross-sectional survey design was used to assess the acceptability of nursing assessment tool. A sample of 200 nurses was selected by purposive sampling. mean score of acceptability ranged from 2.90 to 5.00 with mean 4.029 ± 0.436, which showed overall high acceptability of nursing assessment tool. Dimension-wise mean scores revealed that the dimension ‘Nursing Assessment’ had highest mean score (4.21 ± 0.57) followed by ‘Usefulness in Nursing Care’ (4.18 ± 0.47) and ‘Easy to use and understand’ (3.80 ± 0.46, which shows high acceptability of the tool in ‘Nursing Assessment’ and ‘Usefulness in Nursing Care’ and moderate acceptability in ‘Easy to use and understand’. Therefore It was concluded that the nurses had high acceptability for utilization of Roy Adaptation theory based nursing assessment tool.
Nursing Assessment Tool, Roy Adaptation Theory, Acceptability
