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DOCUMENTATION PRACTICE AND ASSOCIATED FACTORS AMONG NURSES
WORKING IN JIMMA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER
Admasu Belay Gizaw
Jimma University School of Nursing and Midwifery, Ethiopia
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ursing documentation is an necessary component of nursing practice that has a potential to improve the
patient care outcome. Poor documentation among nurses has been shown to have negative impacts on
the health care quality. However; little has been explored about nursing documentation practice in the study
area. The purpose of this study is to assess nursing documentation practice and connected factors among
nurses working in Jimma university medical center.
Institution based cross sectional study design was employed. Data was collected using a structured self- ad-
ministered questionnaire and nursing care standard checklist. Pre-taste was done among 10% of sampled
nurses working in Shenen gibe Hospital. Simple random sampling technique was utilized. Data was intro-
duced into Epidata version 3.1 and then exported to SPSS version 21 for analysis. Descriptive statistics and
binary logistic regression was done. A p-value of less than 0.05 was used to declare statistical significance.
The study result exhibited 48.6% good nursing documentation practice. Adequacy of documenting formats,
time, supervisors motivation, training and intimacy with operational standard of nursing documentation were
significantly connected with practice of nursing care documentation.
To conclude with, nursing documentation practice was poor (51.4%) among nurses under the study. The in-
stitution needs to bring awareness and close monitoring and evaluation and nursing leaders should motivate
the employees to increase the practice of documentation and benefit the necessary documenting materials.