Similarly, Blake-Mowatt et al. (2013) conducted a study at a hospital in western Jamaica. Results from the study revealed that “98% of registered nurses documented nursing actions taken after identification of a problem and provided a summary of the patients' condition at the end of the shift” (Blake-Mowatt et al., 2013, p.331). However, the research revealed that 26% of nurses documented nursing diagnosis that doesn’t correlate with the client's condition. In addition, it was founded that the main reported factors affecting nursing documentation practices were workload and staff to patient ratios (Blake-Mowatt et al., 2013).
According to Blair and Smith (2012), documentation is viewed as a time consuming task that reduces time spent at the
According to Blair and Smith (2012), documentation is viewed as a time consuming task that reduces time spent at the