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Unsafe nursing documentation: A qualitative content analysis.

Ali TajabadiFazlollah AhmadiAfsaneh Sadooghi AslMojtaba Vaismoradi
Published in: Nursing ethics (2019)
In general, individual, organizational, and national factors affected nursing documentation in Iran. In this respect, hiring more nurses, application of reforms in the healthcare management structure, devising appropriate regulations regarding division of labor, constant education of healthcare staff, establishment of clinical governance, improvement of interpersonal relationships, development of hardware and software techniques for documentation, and provision of support should be done to improve the quality of nursing documentation. The above-mentioned suggestions can help nurses with a safe, ethical, lawful, and reliable documentation in nursing practice.
Keyphrases
  • healthcare
  • electronic health record
  • advance care planning
  • quality improvement
  • mental health
  • primary care
  • health information
  • palliative care
  • public health
  • affordable care act