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Effect of Continuous Educational Intervention to Improve Nursing Documentation at a Public Hospital in Yemen
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FOUAD ALI, ABDELKODOSE MOHAMMED HUSSEN ABDULLA, KRISHNA GOPAL RAMPAL
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Nursing documentation is the record of care that is planned or given to individual patients and clients by qualified nurses or other caregivers. Poor nursing documentation in Yemen public hospitals was found. This problem affects effective communication of patient status with other care givers. The aim of this study is to evaluate the effectiveness of a continuous education module to improve the quality of nursing documentation in a government hospital in Sana’a city, Yemen. The design used was an interventional study. The study population was nurses in Al-Kuwait Hospital in Sana'a city. A total of 115 nurses were studied in each of two hospitals. Data were collected by questionnaire and NMCAT audit. Both descriptive and inferential statistical methods were used to analyse the data using SPSS version. Paired sample t-tests and Repeated Measures Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) were used. The dependent variables were knowledge, attitude and performance of nurses and nursing documentation whereas the independent variables were receiving continuous education and nurses' socio-demographic characteristics. There was a significant correlation (r= 0.997, p < 0.001) between education and knowledge, attitude, and performance of nurses towards nursing documentation. Continuous educational intervention and Knowledge, attitude, performance of nurses influenced towards the quality of nursing education. The manager of the hospital and nursing manager are recommended affording the opportunity to support human resources in the hospital, especially for nurses to participate in continuous education, in accordance with the demands of legislation in nursing education, and to organize the training of nursing documentation.
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Nursing Documentation, Records, Knowledge, Attitude, Performance, Practices, Yemen, Intervention, Information Motivation Behavioural Skills Model, Quality of Nursing Documentation, Quasi Experimental.
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https://doi.org/10.31838/ijpr/2020.12.03.287
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