Development of an inter-professional screening instrument for cancer patients’ education process.
: Vaartio-Rajalin H, Huumonen T, Iire L, Jekunen A, Leino-Kilpi H, Minn H, Paloniemi J, Zabalegui A
: 2016
: Applied Nursing Research
: 29
: 248
: 253
: 6
: 0897-1897
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apnr.2015.07.002
Aim
The aim of this paper is to describe the development of an inter-professional screening instrument for cancer patients' cognitive resources, knowledge expectations and inter-professional collaboration within patient education.
Design and methods
Four empirical datasets during 2012-2014 were analyzed in order to identify main categories, subcategories and items for inter-professional screening instrument.
Findings
Our inter-professional screening instrument integrates the critical moments of cancer patient education and the knowledge expectation types obtained from patient datasets to assessment of patients' cognitive resources, knowledge expectations and comprehension; and intra; and inter-professional.
