Background: Documentation is a fundamental and vital communication tool among healthcare professionals. It is an essential part of midwifery that has clinical and legal implications for the client and midwife as well as the health care institution. This study assessed the knowledge, practice of and factors influencing documentation in labour among nurses in Madonna University Teaching Hospital, Elele Rivers State. Methods: This is a descriptive cross sectional study with a sample size of 102 nurses selected using purposive sampling technique. The instrument for data collection was structured questionnaire. Data collected were analysed using simple percentage and frequency table. Results: The findings of the study showed that midwives had good knowledge of documentation in labour, but their practices were poor. Factors influencing documentation includes; time, the attitude of the midwives (terming documentation to be unnecessary), and few number of midwives working in a shift. Conclusions: It was recommended that, the consequences of not documenting in labour should be emphasized and penalty is given to midwives who do not document properly. More staff should be assigned to client and the shift adjusted to shorter hours to prevent fatigue and tediousness.
This is a cross-sectional descriptive survey. The purpose of the study was to examine the factors that influence the uptake of cervical cancer screening among female health workers at the University of Port Harcourt teaching hospital (UPTH), Rivers state. A sample size of 352 was used for the study. A self structured questionnaire was the instrument used for data collection. The reliability indices were established using test-retest approach. The scores obtained were computed using Pearson's product-moment coefficient correlation to obtain the reliability co-efficient (r) of 0.94 which was considered adequate. Data analyses were done using statistical soft ware package, for Social Sciences version 20.0. Descriptive statistics of percentages, mean, standard deviation and criterion mean of 2.5. Inferential statistics (chi-square and Analysis of variance) were used to test associations. Major findings of the study revealed that unavailability of screening services and poor attitude of female health workers were among the major factors that hinder uptake of cervical cancer screening. Some of the recommendations made include: an intensive and extensive sensitization of female health workers about the necessity of cervical cancer screening; More information, education and communication materials like picto-pamphlets should be made available and distributed at strategic centers were women are and can be found; to overcome cultural barriers, there is need to involve community leaders, respectable men and women in each community who should be involved both in disseminating the information on cervical cancer screening and screening programmes and the provision of adequately equipped screening centers which should also be accessible to women.
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