Nursing documentation practice and associated factors among nurses in public hospitals, Tigray, Ethiopia

• Published in: BMC research notes 2019-09, Vol.12 (1), p.612-6, Article 612
• Main Authors: Tasew, Hagos, Mariye, Teklewoini, Teklay, Girmay
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: Adult; Associated factors; Attitude of Health Personnel; Attitudes; Cross-Sectional Studies; Data analysis; Data collection; Documentation; Documentation - statistics & numerical data; Ethiopia; Female; Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; Hospitals; Hospitals, Public - organization & administration; Humans; Knowledge; Male; Management; Methods; Nurses; Nursing; Nursing care; Nursing records; Nursing Records - statistics & numerical data; Nursing research; Nursing Staff, Hospital - organization & administration; Practice; Practice Guidelines as Topic; Professionals; Public hospitals; Questionnaires; Research Note; Sample size; Studies; Surveys and Questionnaires; Training
• ISSN: 1756-0500; 1756-0500
• DOI: 10.1186/s13104-019-4661-x

The objective of this study was to investigate documentation practice and factors affecting documentation practice among nurses working in public hospital of Tigray region, Ethiopia. In this study, there were 317 participants with 99.7% response rate. The result of this study shows that practice nursing care documentation was inadequate (47.8%). Inadequacy of documenting sheets AOR = 3.271, 95% CI (1.125, 23.704), inadequacy of time AOR = 2.205, 95% CI (1.101, 3.413) and with operational standard of nursing documentation AOR = 2.015, 95% CI (1.205, 3.70) were significantly associated with practice of nursing care documentation. To conclude, more than half of nurses were not documented their nursing care. Employing institutions should provide training on documentation of nursing care to enhance knowledge and create awareness on nurses' documentation to nursing directors and chief executive officer to access adequate documenting supplies besides employing more nurses.