英文摘要 |
Background: Nursing documentation is an important issue for nursing. Good practice in record keeping can help to protect the patients by high quality and continuity of care and effective communication. Purpose: To investigate the nurses’ opinions about using clinical nursing care plan in the focus charting system and quality for clinical practice. Methods: This survey design was used to sample participants of intensive care unit nurses in the medical center. A structured questionnaire was used to collect data and total of 150 valid questionnaires were collected. And the other, a retrospective research design with a quantitative approach was applied to assess the status of nursing documentation of patients who were admitted to the seven ICU in the first 72 hours of admission, including clinical nursing care plan with pressure ulcer, endo-tracheal intubation painful, ineffective airway clearance, impaired cardiopulmonary perfusion, and high risk of infection recording. Results: (1) The nurses’ perceptions of the using clinical nursing care plan in the focus charting system scored average of 3.68±.595; (2) The majority of the nurses were of the opinion that using nursing care plan increase their ability to provide the same quality basic care for all patients; (3) Most agreed (78%)the application the focus charting system in clinical nursing care plan decrease documentation time; (4) Completeness of documentation was 83% to 95% for nursing assessment, intervention and evaluation. Use of the focus charting system can improve nursing documentation. Conclusions: The results showed that provided education programs is needed to teach nurses how to using nursing care plan in the focus charting system. |