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Documentation Practice and Associated Factors Among Nurses in Harari Regional State and Dire Dawa Administration Governmental Hospitals, Eastern Ethiopia

BACKGROUND: 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. OBJECTIVE: To...

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Autores principales: Tamir, Takla, Geda, Biftu, Mengistie, Bezatu
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Dove 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8121277/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34007235
http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/AMEP.S298675
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Geda, Biftu
Mengistie, Bezatu
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description BACKGROUND: 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. OBJECTIVE: To assess documentation practice and identify its associated factors among nurses in six Governmental Hospitals of Harari Regional State and Dire Dawa Administration, Eastern Ethiopia. METHODOLOGY: An institutional-based cross-sectional study was conducted among 430 nurses and 421 medical records. Simple random sampling was employed for the selection of nurses and charts after the total sample size had been allocated proportionally for each hospital. Data were collected by using a self-administered questionnaire and review of records, and entered and analyzed by using EpiData version 3.1 and statistical package for social sciences version 20.0, respectively. Logistic regression was used to identify the associated factors. RESULTS: In this study, 47.5% of nurses were found to have good nursing documentation practice whereas good nursing documentation practice was found in 38.5% of medical records. Age (AOR, 95% CI 3.54, 1.170–10.8), attitude (AOR, 95% CI 5.66, 3.17–10.11), in-service training (AOR, 95% CI 2.53, 1.477–4.35), nurse to patient ratio (AOR, 95% CI 2.24, 1.24–4.047), motivation (AOR, 95% CI 4.60, 2.721–7.76), and familiarity with standards of nursing documentation (AOR, 95% CI 1.98, 1.137–3.44) were found to have a statistically significant positive association with documentation practice. CONCLUSION: Poor documentation practice was due to the identified factors. So, it is better to put further effort toward improving documentation practice through providing training on standards of documentation and enhancing the favorable attitude of nurses toward documentation practice by motivating them regarding documentation activities.
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spelling pubmed-81212772021-05-17 Documentation Practice and Associated Factors Among Nurses in Harari Regional State and Dire Dawa Administration Governmental Hospitals, Eastern Ethiopia Tamir, Takla Geda, Biftu Mengistie, Bezatu Adv Med Educ Pract Original Research BACKGROUND: 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. OBJECTIVE: To assess documentation practice and identify its associated factors among nurses in six Governmental Hospitals of Harari Regional State and Dire Dawa Administration, Eastern Ethiopia. METHODOLOGY: An institutional-based cross-sectional study was conducted among 430 nurses and 421 medical records. Simple random sampling was employed for the selection of nurses and charts after the total sample size had been allocated proportionally for each hospital. Data were collected by using a self-administered questionnaire and review of records, and entered and analyzed by using EpiData version 3.1 and statistical package for social sciences version 20.0, respectively. Logistic regression was used to identify the associated factors. RESULTS: In this study, 47.5% of nurses were found to have good nursing documentation practice whereas good nursing documentation practice was found in 38.5% of medical records. Age (AOR, 95% CI 3.54, 1.170–10.8), attitude (AOR, 95% CI 5.66, 3.17–10.11), in-service training (AOR, 95% CI 2.53, 1.477–4.35), nurse to patient ratio (AOR, 95% CI 2.24, 1.24–4.047), motivation (AOR, 95% CI 4.60, 2.721–7.76), and familiarity with standards of nursing documentation (AOR, 95% CI 1.98, 1.137–3.44) were found to have a statistically significant positive association with documentation practice. CONCLUSION: Poor documentation practice was due to the identified factors. So, it is better to put further effort toward improving documentation practice through providing training on standards of documentation and enhancing the favorable attitude of nurses toward documentation practice by motivating them regarding documentation activities. Dove 2021-05-10 /pmc/articles/PMC8121277/ /pubmed/34007235 http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/AMEP.S298675 Text en © 2021 Tamir et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/This work is published and licensed by Dove Medical Press Limited. The full terms of this license are available at https://www.dovepress.com/terms.php and incorporate the Creative Commons Attribution – Non Commercial (unported, v3.0) License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) ). By accessing the work you hereby accept the Terms. Non-commercial uses of the work are permitted without any further permission from Dove Medical Press Limited, provided the work is properly attributed. For permission for commercial use of this work, please see paragraphs 4.2 and 5 of our Terms (https://www.dovepress.com/terms.php).
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Documentation Practice and Associated Factors Among Nurses in Harari Regional State and Dire Dawa Administration Governmental Hospitals, Eastern Ethiopia
title Documentation Practice and Associated Factors Among Nurses in Harari Regional State and Dire Dawa Administration Governmental Hospitals, Eastern Ethiopia
title_full Documentation Practice and Associated Factors Among Nurses in Harari Regional State and Dire Dawa Administration Governmental Hospitals, Eastern Ethiopia
title_fullStr Documentation Practice and Associated Factors Among Nurses in Harari Regional State and Dire Dawa Administration Governmental Hospitals, Eastern Ethiopia
title_full_unstemmed Documentation Practice and Associated Factors Among Nurses in Harari Regional State and Dire Dawa Administration Governmental Hospitals, Eastern Ethiopia
title_short Documentation Practice and Associated Factors Among Nurses in Harari Regional State and Dire Dawa Administration Governmental Hospitals, Eastern Ethiopia
title_sort documentation practice and associated factors among nurses in harari regional state and dire dawa administration governmental hospitals, eastern ethiopia
topic Original Research
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8121277/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34007235
http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/AMEP.S298675
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