Auditing NICU nursing documentation in hospitals of Babol University of Medical Sciences
Advances in Nursing & Midwifery,
Vol. 24 No. 87 (2015),
16 January 2015
,
Page 23-28
https://doi.org/10.22037/anm.v24i87.8936
Abstract
Background and aim: Documentation is one of the nurses’ professional tasks, which is an essential
component of medical evidence and patient’s record; it sounds that nothing can reflect the total amount of
nursing care giving patients as documentation does. The aim of this study was to audit the nurses’
documentation in NICU at hospitals affiliated to Babol University of Medical Sciences and health service,
2012.
Method & Materials: This study was a descriptive survey, 400 nursing documentations of the two NICUs of
two hospitals of Babol University of Medical Sciences were selected through time sampling. The data were
collected by a check list which was developed by the researcher in accordance with recent national and
international standards of nursing documentation. The validity of the check list was assured by a panel of
experts .Reliability was determined by inter rater method. Completeness of records was observed and scores
as: not acceptable (0-49), somewhat acceptable (50-74) and acceptable (75-100).
Findings: The study indicated that 49.3% of nursing documents complied with standards of documentations.
Which indicates a poor quality of documentation in NICUs of hospitals in this study.
Conclusion: Findings of the study showed that there is a need to educate Nurses in NICUs on documentation
principles and more supervision and feedback by managers and leaders
Keywords: Documentation, Nursing, Auditing, NICU.
- Documentation
- Nursing
- Auditing
- NICU.
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