Correlation between Quality of Nursing Documents and Nurses Perception from Organizational Empowerment in Pediatric Wards or Urmia Shahid Motahari Hospital- 2017

Abstract

Abstract: Introduction: nurses’ documentation is considered as one of the most primary duties of them and it is the underlying reason behind their exercising of the healthcare services provided to the patients. There are various factors influencing the documentations and the identification of these important factors plays a crucial role in the improvement of the quality of the documents. The present study investigates the relationship between the quality of nursing records and their perceptions of the organizational power in children wards of Orumia’s Shahid Motahhary Hospital. Materials and Methods: the present study was conducted based on correlation description in 2017. The study population included the entire nurses working in children wards of Urmia's Shahid Motahari Hospital. To evaluate the nurses’ perceptions of organizational power, the King’s model of organizational power perception was utilized and a researcher-constructed checklist was employed to collect data pertaining to the quality of the nursing documents and records and three records extant in nurses’ files were examined for each of them. The validity of the checklist was verified by ten nursing professors and the reliability of the checklist was ascertained based on the observers’ agreement. The questionnaire reliability was estimated using retest method and the questionnaire’s validity was considered confirmed as justified in the study by Valizadeh. In the end, the data were analyzed using SPSS software, version 21. Findings: the nurses were 28.48±5.57 years old and had a work history of 5.09±4.86 years and they took care of 9.55±3.06 patients on average. In sum, 95.4% of the documents were found belonging to the morning shifts and 83.4% of the documentation had been done in the afternoon shift and 94.9% of the documents had been recorded in the night shifts. The documentation was all in all of a favorable quality. Moreover, 52.6% of the nurses had a good perception of the organizational power. The statistical results are indicative of the idea that there is no significant relationship between the quality of the records and the nurses’ perception of the organizational power. Discussion and Conclusion: the study findings indicated that the documents’ quality is in an optimum level and that the nurses have a good perception of the organizational power.