Background
Nurses engage in various activities from the time of a patient’s admission to his or her discharge from the hospital, helping patients to meet their needs. Each of the activities should be documented properly as authentic and crucial evidence. This study aimed to identify nursing activities in the delivery of nursing care based on the documentation completed.
Methods
A quantitative design with a retrospective approach was used, in which 240 medical records from Dr. Kariadi Hospital in Semarang, dating from July through September 2016, were obtained and assessed. The records were randomly selected based on the 10 most common medical and surgical diseases and a hospital stay of more than 3 days. The instrument for collecting the data from the patient progress notes used an observations form. The data were analyzed using univariate statistics and needed to be at least 80% of the values for a certain criteria for it to be considered. The results were analyzed to compare the standard of care.
Results
It was revealed that nursing activities in the delivery of nursing care were insufficient. These activities, according the standard of nursing activities, included the assessment of the functional status of decubitus risk (20.8%), biological status (0.4%), formulation of a nursing diagnosis (20.8%), identification of patients’ home needs (41.3%), quality of life (66.3%), collaboration intervention in drug administration (60.8%), monitoring of vital signs (23.3%), monitoring of daily living activities (37.5%), mobilization/rehabilitation (37.5%), outcome (46.7%), and resume activities nursing (0.8%).
Conclusions
Nursing activities are very important within the hospital and must solve the problems that the patient needs. Every nursing activity should produce documentation with critical thinking. If nursing documents are not clear and accurate, inter-professional communication and an evaluation of nursing care cannot be optimal. Nursing activity and documentation should be continuously directed, controlled, and evaluated by a nurse manager. The quality of nursing activities should always be good to increase patient satisfaction, patient safety, and cost-effectiveness.
Kelengkapan pendokumentasian asuhan keperawatan merupakan bagian dari kualitas pelayanan keperawatan di rumah sakit. Pelaksanaan pendokumentasian adalah indikator kinerja perawat yang dipengaruhi oleh karakteristik dan beban kerja perawat. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengidentifikasi hubungan antara karakteristik, beban kerja perawat dan kelengkapan pendokumentasian asuhan keperawatan di Ruang Umum Instalasi Rawat Inap RS. Desain penelitian ini adalah analitik observasional dengan pendekatan retrospektif yang dilakukan pada tiga ruang rawat inap. Pengukuran kelengkapan dokumentasi menggunakan instrumen A Depkes dengan sampel 95 dokumen. Pengukuran beban kerja menggunakan teknik continous observation dengan sampel 46 perawat. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa pendokumentasian rata-rata belum lengkap (71,6%), dan beban kerja perawat sebagian besar tinggi (52,2%). Faktor yang paling dominan mempengaruhi kelengkapan pendokumentasian adalah pelatihan dan beban kerja. Ada hubungan antara masa kerja, pelatihan dan beban kerja dengan kelengkapan pendokumentasian. Direkomendasikan untuk pelatihan pendokumentasian bagi perawat dan meninjau ulang jumlah perawat serta penempatan tenaga sesuai dengan beban kerja di ruangan.
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