Nurses Education and Motivation Towards Nursing Documentation

Abstract

Introduction: Nursing documentation is an integral part that cannot be separated from healthcare as a responsibility and accountability of nurses. High education and motivation are needed to achieve good nursing documentation. The aim of this study was to know the correlation between education and motivation of nurses towards Intensive Care nursing documentation.Methods: The design used was an analytical survey with a cross-sectional approach. The population was nurses in intensive care of Palembang BARI Hospital with as many as 46 nurses and 44 samples obtained with total sampling. Data were collected by questionnaire and observational and were analyzed by Chi-Square. Independent variables are education and motivation of nurses and the dependent variable is nursing documentation.Results: There was a correlation between education (p=0.035) and motivation (p=0.040) of nurses towards nursing documentation.Conclusion: High education and motivation of nurses influenced towards the quality of nursing education. The nursing manager of the hospital is recommended affording the opportunity to support human resources in the hospital, especially for nurses to participate in education, in accordance with the demands of legislation in nursing education, and to organize the training of nursing documentation.

Work motivation, job satisfaction, and nursing record-keeping: do they differ in surgery and internal disease departments?

“…Similar results have been presented by other authors around the world (Gurková et al, 2013;Masum et al, 2016;Toode et al, 2015). A key challenge for every organization is to maintain the satisfaction of employees and increase their motivation (Ayalew et al, 2019), factors which may also affect the level of nursing record-keeping (Mediarti et al, 2018).…”

“…Although respondents working in the Internal Diseases Department have lower levels of amotivation, i.e., their motivation is higher (as is their job satisfaction), their level of nursing recordkeeping is significantly lower. In contrast, Mediarti et al (2018) found a connection between motivation and nursing documentation. Results such as ours potentially suggest that nurses in Croatia are overworked and do not perceive nursing recordkeeping to be in their scope of work.…”

“…Regarding workload and the demographic structure of the respondents, a large proportion of the nurses had received a secondary education (Croatian Nursing Council, 2020), and it may be assumed that they did not have time and opportunity for the complete implementation of the nursing care process (Akhu-Zaheya et al, 2018;Kamil et al, 2018;Tasew et al, 2019), or that there was a low ratio of nurses to patients and a lack of nurses with higher education who managed to perform all tasks, including nursing record-keeping (Kamil et al, 2018;Tasew et al, 2019). It seems that lack of time and nursesʼ excessive workload could be major reasons for incomplete nursing documentation, as stated by other authors (Kamil et al, 2018;Macková & Zeleníková, 2012;Mediarti et al, 2018;Tasew et al, 2019;Vabo et al, 2017). It is necessary (as evident in the available literature) that nurses' perception of the difficulties they face concerning record-keeping be investigated (Brown, et al, 2020).…”

“…Kamil et al (2018) state that nurses do not always complete documentation, due to lack of motivation (among other factors). Mediarti et al, (2018) emphasize that a strong connection exists between work motivation and the level of nursing documentation. Work motivation is a process directing and maintaining execution of workflow and helping workers perform the work assignments they are given (Sohail et al, 2014).…”

How forensic mental health nurses’ perspectives of their patients can bias healthcare: A qualitative review of nursing documentation

“…For example, nurses should be provided with education and training that presents the evidence about documentation and bias using specific examples of their own writing both when they are initially onboarded into a nursing position but also at regular intervals throughout their career as scholars suggest that nurses require ongoing support to maintain standards (Blair & Smith, 2012). Furthermore, researchers highlight that education has the most pressing affect on quality of documentation as defined by nursing staff (Kamil, Rachmah, & Wardani, 2018); specifically education improves motivation to document well (Mediarti, Rehana, & Abunyamin, 2018).…”