1. By: Group 7

2.  Nursing documentation is an important tool for
evaluating the care provided by the caregivers and
 It emphasizes on monitoring quality of health-care
based on the patients’ outcomes .

3.  Nursing documents can be used for:
(i) Ensuring quality of care through communication
(ii) Furnishing legal evidence of the process and outcomes of care
(iii) Evaluation of the quality, efficiency and effectiveness of the
patient care;
(iv) Providing data for research, financial and ethical quality assurance
purposes
(v) Providing the infrastructure supporting development of nursing
knowledge ;
(vi) Assisting in establishing benchmarks for the development of
nursing education and standards of clinical practice ;
(vii) Ensuring the appropriate reimbursement;
(viii) Providing the data for future health-care planning ; and
(ix) Providing data for other purposes such as risk management,
learning experience for students, protection of patients’ rights .

4.  To identify the knowledge regarding nursing
documentation.
 To assess the practice regarding nursing
documentation.
 To find out association of knowledge and practice with
the selected variables.
 To find out the relationship between the knowledge
and practice.

5.  Dependent variables:
 Knowledge of nurses regarding nursing documentation
 Practice of nurses regarding nursing documentation
 Independent variables:
 Age
 Education
 Work experience
 Working area
 Related training and/or workshop
 Frequency of supervision
 Nursing audit

6.  Independent :
 Age: completed years at last birthday
 Education:
 BN/BSC. Nursing,
 certificate nursing,
 ANM
 Work experiences: completed years and months

7.  Working area:
 General ward
 Special ward

8.  Related CNE, training and workshop
 Yes
 No
 If yes, specify…………………
 Supervision
 Often
 Sometimes
 Rarely
 Never

9.  Nursing audit on documentation
 Often
 Sometimes
 Rarely
 Never

10.  Dependent variables:
 Knowledge : Nurses' knowledge will evaluate by
prepared questionnaires on nursing domains related to
 nursing process,
 legal accuracy,
 chronology, and
 accuracy of record keeping and
 significance of documentations.

11.  Practice:
Checklists will provide covering four areas:
 Nursing records,
 Drug interventions,
 Vital sign and
 I & O of fluids.

13.  Research desing:
 Crosectional study
 Settings:
 selected hospitals of eastern region
 Population:
 Selected nurses from selected hospitals

14. Stratified population proportionate systematic random
sampling
 First: form strata of hospitals: medical college,
zonal hospital, district hospital and private hospitals
above 50 beded and randomly select from 1 medical
college, 1 zonal hospital, 4 district hospital and 4
private hospitals from each strata
 Second: population proportionate each hospital
 Third: Simple random sampling

15.  250

16.  An informed consent should be taken.

17.  Formal approval will be obtained from the concerned
authorities.
 Informed written consent will be obtained from each
respondent before giving the questionnaire.
 Confidentiality and anonymity will be maintained
throughout the study and will be maintained later.

18.  Personal cost
 Transportation 10,000
 Communication 5,000
 Refreshment 12,000
 Material cost
 Stationary 2,000
 Literature review
i) Photocopy 5,000
ii) Printing 5,000
iii) Internet 5,000

19.  Report preparation cost 10,000
 Expert cost
 Statistician 10,000
 Translator 3,000
 Editor 5,000
 Principle investigator 20,000
 Co-investigator 15,000
 Enumerator(data collector) 10,000
 Miscellaneous 5,000
total budget two lakhs

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6th
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21.  Jasemi M, Zamanzadeh V, Rahmani A, Mohajjel A,
Alsadathoseini F. (2012). Knowledge and Practice of
Tabriz Teaching Hospitals’ Nurses Regarding Nursing
Documentation. Thrita Journal of Medical
Sciences,1(4), 133-138.
 Wang N, Hailey D, Yu P. (2011). Quality of nursing
documentation and approaches to its evaluation: a
mixed-method systematic review. Journal of Advanced
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2648.2011.05634.x