“…The copyright holder for this preprint (which was not this version posted October 8, 2019. . https://doi.org/10.1101/19008144 doi: medRxiv preprint instance, lack of theoretical and practical knowledge [20][21][22][23][24][25][26], institutional factors [6,11], professional factors [11],work overload [11,21,23,[25][26][27][28], lack of previous experience [6,27], inadequate nursing staff [20], patients with complicated case [24], working in a hospital [25], patient economic status [25], early discharge [25,26], not cooperative [25], lack of training [6,18,22,26,29], low educational status [27,28], poor Nurses skill [28], lack of time [18,20,27,30], lack of authorities' support [27] and lack of equipment and material [20,27,28], were some of the factors associated with implementation of nursing process. On the contrary, a study conducted in Nigeria shows that institutional factor does not pose a barrier to the use of nursing process [...…”