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Abstract
Nursing documentation is a fundamental nursing responsibility. Good documentation ensures continuity of care furnishes legal evidence of the process of care and supports evaluation of patient care. The current study seeks to assess the relationship between quality of nursing documentation system and the continuity of patient care in medicine hospital. A descriptive correlational design was utilized to achieve the aim of the present study. The study was conducted at Medicine hospital affiliated to Cairo university Hospitals. The study had two samples. First sample was a convenient sample of (44) unit managers and staff nurses working at six floors for inpatient services in medicine hospital and the second sample werepatients’ files of thirty percent of new admitted patients of total records (540). All over three month period. Three tools were used, the first tool about the quality of nursing documentation system questionnaire, second tool was a concurrent editing checklist about the quality of nursing documentation and the third tool about continuity of patient care developed observational checklist. The current study showed that all nurses (100%) agreed about the importance of documentation and continuity of patient carealso all nurses (100%) agreed that documentation consume long time and there was high workload and the majority (88.6%) of nurses agreed that they perform non-nursing activities. The current study indicated that the majority (99.40% & 86.10%) of reviewingpatients’ files had unacceptable levels of both quality of nursing documentation and continuity of patient care respectively. Moreover, there was a statistical significant relationship between nurses educational level and both total observed continuity of patient care and total observed quality of nursing documentation, i.e. technical nurses had the highest mean scores (81.96 and 37.27) in relation to total observed continuity of patient care and total observed quality of nursing documentation respectively. Also, a statistical significant relationship between nurses years of experience and both total observed continuity of patient care and total observed quality of nursing documentation, i.e. less than one year experience nurses had the highest mean scores (88 and50. 50) in relation to total observed continuity of patient care and total observed quality of nursing documentation respectively. Finally, the current study showed that there was a highly significant positive correlation between total observed quality of nursing documentation and total observed continuity of patient care (P<. 000) and (r=0. 712**). The study recommended that unit managers should increase their monitoring of nursing documentation to be sure of using quality documentation standard. Documentation formats should design to be simple in use.