ABSTRACT

Background of the Study: Nursing documentation is an integral and vital professional nursing practice that refers to the process of recording nursing activities concerned with the care given to individual clients to ensure continual effective, safe, quality, evidence based and individualized care. Aim: The aim of the study to assess the nursing documentation practice and associated factors among nurses working in selected hospital. Method: Descriptive Cross-Sectional research design was used 100 staff nurses were selected as sample by using convenience sampling technique. Result: The collected data was tabulated and analysis using descriptive and inferential statistics. The mean and standard deviation observed as 2.27±0.920 for documentation practice and for associated factors of documentation practice it was 1.60±0.492. Here the association that had been assessed the result that the experienced nurses showed significance result regarding associated factors. The chi square has been used to find out the significance, here(10.803) chi-square calculated value found higher than its table value at 3 degree of freedom, hence it found significantly associated with associated factors at P<0.05 significant level. Based on analysis thenull hypothesis H02 rejected and for other variables the null hypothesis H02 accepted. Further the association level among documentation practice the associated factors of nurses was good for familiarity with hospital policy, work area, training, and motivation but criteria like time shortage, knowledge and documentation sheet still require to be improve. Conclusion: This study conducted that the Assess Nursing Documentation Practice and Associated Factors among nurses working in selected hospital with view to develop standard training program. Keywords: Staff nurses, Nursing documentation practice, associated factors, Standard training program
Publication date: 01/05/2024

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https://doi.org/10.31032/IJBPAS/2024/13.5.7990