Satisfaction of Nurses With the Withdrawal Assessment Tool-1 (WAT-1 ).

ANALYSIS of variance; BENZODIAZEPINES; COMMUNICATION; CONFIDENCE; CRITICALLY ill; DOCUMENTATION; DRUG withdrawal symptoms; INTENSIVE care nursing; INTENSIVE care units; RESEARCH methodology; NARCOTICS; CONTINUING education of nurses; NURSING assessment; PATIENTS; PEDIATRIC nursing; PEDIATRICS; SENSORY perception; PERSONNEL management; STATISTICAL hypothesis testing; STATISTICS; SURVEYS; T-test (Statistics); TRANQUILIZING drugs; U-statistics; DATA analysis; PRE-tests & post-tests; MULTITRAIT multimethod techniques; RESEARCH methodology evaluation; CHILDREN

The article offers information on the evaluation of the new pediatric assessment tool, the Withdrawal Assessment Tool-1 which reduces the pressure of pediatric nurses to accurately assessing the patient's clinical state. Topics include increased risk of withdrawal syndrome (WS), use of opioids and benzodiazepines causing WS, and participation of the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) and Pediatric Intermediate Care Unit (PIMC) staff in the trial of the tool.