Knowledge and Practice of Documentation in Labour among Healthcare Professionals in a Tertiary Healthcare Facility, South- South, Nigeria | Chapter 11 | Disease and Health: Research Developments Vol. 4

Background: Documentation is a fundamental and vital communication tool among healthcare professionals. It is an essential part of nurse/ midwife that has clinical and legal implications for the client nurse/ midwife as well as the health care institution. This study assessed determinants of documentation in labour among healthcare professionals in a tertiary healthcare facility in South-South, Nigeria.

 

Methods: This is a descriptive cross-sectional study with a sample size of 102 purposively selected healthcare professionals (nurses/midwives). The instrument for data collection was self-structured questionnaire. Data collected were analysed using statistical package for social sciences (SPSS) version 23 and presented in simple percentage and frequency table.

 

Results: The findings of the study showed that nurses had good knowledge of documentation in labour. Determinant factors influencing documentation includes; time, their poor attitude towards documentation (terming documentation to be unnecessary), and few number of midwives working in a shift.

 

Conclusions: Findings concluded that respondents have good knowledge of documentation, however this has not translated into practice. Also, there are factors that influence this practice among the respondents.

 

Recommendations: It was recommended that training and workshops on the importance of documentation should be organized regularly to create more awareness on documentation; to encourage and promote its practice; identify factors hindering its use as well as provide strategies for overcoming these factors. Also, more staff should be assigned to clients and the shift adjusted to shorter hours to prevent fatigue and tediousness.

 

Author (s) Details

 

Maureen Dike Frank
Department of Nursing Science, Faculty of Basic Medical Sciences, College of Medical Sciences, Rivers State University, Nigeria.

 

Paulina Ackley Akpan-Idiok
Department of Nursing Science, Faculty of Allied Health Sciences, College of Health Sciences, University of Uyo, Uyo, Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria.

 

Chukwu Chinenye
Department of Nursing Sciences, Madonna University, Nigeria.

 

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Occupational Stress, Social Relationships at the Workplace, Psychological Wellbeing and Coping Strategies of Nurses and Midwives: A Study in the Catholic Health Service of the Western Region of Ghana | Book Publisher International

 Occupational stress, social interactions at work, psychological well-being, and coping methods of nurses and midwives in Ghana's Catholic Health Service Western Region were explored in this study. The study used a quantitative research approach and followed a positivist research ethic. The investigation was conducted using a descriptive cross-sectional study design. A total of 300 nurses and midwives (nurses = 237; midwives = 63) were chosen from four Catholic hospitals in Ghana's Western Region. A questionnaire based on Nurses' Occupational Stress Scale was used to collect information from participants, with Ryff's Psychological Wellbeing Scale (PWB 18 items) used to measure psychological wellbeing, the Coping Strategies Inventory (CSI-SF, 1989) used to measure the type of coping strategies used, and the Worker Relationship Scale developed by Biggs, Swailes, and Baker (2016) used to measure the level of social relations. The one-sample t-test, Pearson Product Moment Correlation coefficients, one-sample Kolmogorov-Smirnov test, regression, t-test, and ANOVA were used to analyse the data. The study found that nurses and midwives in the Western Region of the Catholic Health Service have significantly higher levels of stress, positive psychological wellness, and favourable work-related social relationships. Occupational stress was also found to be marginally and weakly linked to psychological well-being and workplace social interactions in the study. According to the findings, nurses and midwives employed both problem-focused and emotion-focused coping techniques in dealing with occupational stress, however problem-focused coping strategies were utilised more frequently. Furthermore, the findings of the study revealed that psychological well-being and social ties at work have a substantial impact on nurses' and midwives' experiences of occupational stress. Occupational stress has a substantial impact on the psychological well-being of nurses and midwives, according to the findings. It was suggested that the Ministry of Health hire Counselling Psychologists for all Ghanaian health institutions in order to satisfy the counselling needs of nurses and midwives, as well as other health workers in general. In addition, the Ministry of Health and its agencies should dispatch sufficient nurses and midwives to areas where they are most needed and guarantee that they report to those locations. Workshops on coping methods, social interactions, and psychological well-being will be offered to nurses and midwives, as well as ongoing professional development.

Author(s) Details

Eric Kwasi Elliason
Department of Counselling and Wellbeing, Modal College, Sogakope, Ghana.

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