Factors Associated with the Timeliness of Electronic Nursing Documentation

Ahn, Meejung; Choi, Mona; Kim, Young Ah

doi:10.4258/hir.2016.22.4.270

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“…More experienced nurses had favorable attitude towards nursing care documentation than less experienced nurses as the current study stated. This inding is supported by studies in European hospital [4] and Korea [26]. The possible explanation might be as nurses work experience increases, they face many challenges including legal suits due to impacts of poor nursing documentation, so their attitude about the importance of nursing documentation become improved time to time.…”

Section: Attitude Of Nurses Towards Nursing Care Documentationmentioning

confidence: 78%

Knowledge, attitude, practice and associated factors towards nursing care documentation among nurses in West Gojjam Zone public hospitals, Amhara Ethiopia, 2018

Andualem¹,

Asmamaw²,

Sintayehu³

et al. 2019

Clin J Nurs Care Pract

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Background: In health care systems nursing care documentation is a vital and powerful tool that ensures continuity of care and communication between health personnel for better patient outcomes. Knowledge, attitude and practice of nurses' towards nursing care documentation affect the quality and coordination of patients' care. Hence, this study aimed to assess knowledge, attitude, practice and associated factors towards nursing care documentation among nurses in West Gojjam Zone public hospitals, Amhara Ethiopia. Method: Institutional based cross sectional study was conducted among 246 nurses in West Gojjam Zone public hospitals from February to March 8, 2018. The study participants were selected by simple random sampling technique. Data were collected by using pre-tested and validated self-administered structured questionnaire with internal reliability of Cronbach's Alpha values 0.912, 0.784 and 0.713 for knowledge, attitude and practice questions respectively. Epi data version 3.1 and SPSS version 20 was used for data entry and analysis respectively. Descriptive statistics and binary logistic regression model were used. Result: The overall response rate was 97.56%. Among 240 respondents 54.6% of them had good knowledge, 50% of study participants had favorable attitude and 47.5% of study participants had good nursing care documentation practice. Sex and monthly salary were found to be statistically signifi cant with knowledge of nurses. Work setting, work experiences and knowledge of nurses had signifi cant association with nurses' attitude towards nursing care documentation. Availability of operational standards, knowledge and attitude of nurses had signifi cant association with nursing care documentation practice. Conclusions and Recommendation: Results of this study showed that knowledge, attitude and practice of West Gojjam zone public hospital nurses on nursing care documentation were poor. Therefore; in order to solve this problem each hospital should recruit nurses until hospitals are saturated enough. It is recommended to avail nursing care documentation standards/guidelines in each hospital and to give training about it and also it is recommended to conduct multisite studies especially qualitative type to increase its quality.

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Section: Attitude Of Nurses Towards Nursing Care Documentationmentioning

confidence: 78%

Knowledge, attitude, practice and associated factors towards nursing care documentation among nurses in West Gojjam Zone public hospitals, Amhara Ethiopia, 2018

Andualem¹,

Asmamaw²,

Sintayehu³

et al. 2019

Clin J Nurs Care Pract

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“…A study conducted by Khani et al ( 2016 ) revealed that fatigue, large number of patients, high volume of nursing actions, lack of continuous monitoring and evaluation, lack of reward system to staff by nursing management were important factors affecting nursing records in hospitals. Ahn, Choi and Kim ( 2016 ) also identified that work experience of nurses and nature of nursing shifts are other factors that influence timeous record-keeping in public hospitals. Currently in public hospitals of Vhembe district in Limpopo Province, the nursing audit of patient records for quality assurance purposes, peer review team meetings, mortality reviews and hospital management meetings continuously led to complaints about the trend of poor record-keeping, despite all efforts to improve record-keeping challenges.…”

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Record-keeping: Challenges experienced by nurses in selected public hospitals

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BackgroundPatients’ records provide a trace of care processes that have occurred and are further used as communication amongst nurses for continued management of patients. Nurses have the responsibility to ensure that records are accurate and complete in order to effectively manage their patients. In hospitals, nurses have to record a wide range of information in the patient’s records and this leads to increased workload on the part of nurses that compromises accurate record-keeping.ObjectivesThe purpose of this study was to explore and describe the challenges experienced by nurses with regard to record-keeping at selected public hospitals in the Vhembe district, Limpopo Province, South Africa.MethodA qualitative, explorative and descriptive research design was used. Nurses working in selected public hospitals were purposively selected and semi-structured interviews were conducted until data saturation was reached. Data were analysed using the Tesch’s open-coding method.ResultsNurses working in public hospitals experience record-keeping as a challenging activity owing to a variety of challenges which include lack of time to complete the records, increased patients’ admission and shortage of recording material.ConclusionRecord-keeping is not done properly which is problematic, and it is recommended that there should be continuous training, monitoring and evaluation of nurses on record-keeping issues, supply of adequate recording materials and proper time management amongst nurses to improve record-keeping challenges. The need for comprehensive record-keeping remains fundamental in public hospitals in order to improve patient care.

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“…In Jordan, there is no clear evaluation or clear evidence that indicates which of the two forms of documentation (paper‐based versus EHRs) is more qualified. Ahn, Choi, and Kim () reported that increased adoption of EHRs does not necessarily result in a reduction in healthcare costs or an increase in the quality of care. According to Nguyen et al.…”

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confidence: 99%