Journal of Primary Care and General Practice

DOCUMENTATION PRACTICE AND ASSOCIATED FACTORS AMONG NURSES WORKING IN JIMMA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER

Global Conference on NURSING AND HEALTHCARE
March 27-28, 2019 | Amsterdam, Netherlands

Admasu Belay Gizaw

Jimma University School of Nursing and Midwifery, Ethiopia

Posters & Accepted Abstracts : J Prim Care Gen Pract

Abstract:

Nursing 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- administered 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 introduced 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 institution 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.

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