Background:
Long-acting antipsychotics injection (LAIs) is a well-established and common treatment for mental illness. Routinely, nurses are required to make numerous decisions regarding factors during injection process but the clinical practice guidelines (CPG) are not well developed in Taiwan.
Purpose:
The purpose of this study was to establish the process of nurses’ injection in implementing CPG to provide nurses refer in clinical practice.
Methods:
This study was completed through two stages. We based on problems of clinical practice and used systematic review of the relevant literature. A systematic review of the literature was conducted on studies published to March 2016. The following electronic databases were searched: Cinahl, Medline, Cochrane Library, Oxford Journals online, Pubmed, Joanna Briggs Institute, PsycINFO, Embase, EBSCOhost for review. Then, two sessions of Dephi methods were held to understand experts' experiences with 8 Taiwan psychiatric nursing experts. The CPG verified by experts of clinical and methodology.
Results:
Based on the injection process there was 17 issues were developing in CPG of LAIs. All of issues of CPG was deleted the items with agreement lower than 75% after Dephi method and finally obtained 16 issues. The CPG was recommended to clinical practice by psychiatric nursing experts and evaluated by three methodology experts for CGP quality.
Conclusions:
It is important to up-to-date guidelines are available to assist nurses to make informed decisions about the injection technique. In clinical, nurses should be encouraged renew the injection knowledge for patient quality of care.
