TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bashair Mohamed Elsayed Abdo
AU  - Eglal Ahmed Abdelwahab , 
TI  - The relationship between quality of nursing documentation system and continuity of patient care in medicine hospital at Cairo University Hospitals / 
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Cairo : 
PB  - Bashair Mohamed Elsayed Abdo , 
KW  - Continuity of patient care
KW  - Nursing documentation
KW  - Standard of nursing documentation
N1  - Thesis (M.Sc.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Nursing - Department of Nursing Services Administration; Issued also as CD
N2  - Nursing documentation is a fundamental nursing responsibility. Good documentation ensures continuity of care furnishes legal evidence of the process of care and supports evaluation of patient care. The current study seeks to assess the  relationship between quality of nursing documentation system and the continuity of  patient care in medicine hospital. A descriptive correlational design was utilized to  achieve the aim of the present study. The study was conducted at Medicine hospital  affiliated to Cairo university Hospitals. The study had two samples. First sample was a  convenient sample of (44) unit managers and staff nurses working at six floors for  inpatients services in medicine hospital and the second sample was patient's files of  thirty percent of new admitted patients of total records (540). All over three months  period. Three tools were used, first tool about quality of nursing documentation  system questionnaire, second tool was a concurrent auditing checklist about quality of  nursing documentation and the third tool about continuity of patient care developed  observational checklist. The current study showed that all nurses (100%) agreed about  the importance of documentation and continuity of patient care also all nurses (100%)  agreed that documentation consume long time and there was high work load and the  majority (88.6%) of nurses agreed that they perform non-nursing activities
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