Factors affecting documentation of nursing care provision.
Nursing documentation is a daily reality of nurses work . It is the evidence of nursing actions. However evidence in hospitals in Malawi has showed that nurses do not like to document their intervention or nursing actions done on the patient/client. This proposal is for a descriptive quantitative s...
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| Language: | English |
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2022
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| Online Access: | http://nkhokwe.kuhes.ac.mw/handle/20.500.12845/423 |
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Add Tag | Summary: | Nursing documentation is a daily reality of nurses work . It is the evidence of nursing actions. However evidence in hospitals in Malawi has showed that nurses do not like to document their intervention or nursing actions done on the patient/client. This proposal
is for a descriptive quantitative study aiming at finding factors that affect documentation of nursing care provision at Ntchisi District Hospital. There is little literature of nursing documentation showing that .it is an area which has not been researched much both in Malawi and other countries. The study shall have a sample of twenty nurse midwife technicians and ten registered nurses drawn from Male, Female, Paediatric and Maternity wards at Ntchisi District Hospital. Convenience sampling will be used in getting nurse working in the mentioned wards. A pilot study will be conducted to ensure validity and reliability of the questionnaire and the checklist developed by the researcher. The main study will be conducted between June and July 2009. A work plan will be formulated for the whole activity. Data for the study shall be collected from nurse who will be requested to answer and fill the structured questionnaire with open and close ended questions. Ethical consideration shall involve getting consent from those sampled before getting their views. Additional information on nursing documentation will be obtained from patients' files, utilizing the checklist.
Data analysis will be done manually and also using Epi Info 6. Results will be in frequency tables, percentages and ratios. Dissemination of results will be through report writing indicating findings of the study. |
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Factors affecting documentation of nursing care provision at Ntchisi District Hospital