Author/Authors :
Poortaghi، Sarieh نويسنده Department of Community Health Nursing, School of Nursing
and Midwifery, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, IR
Iran , , Salsali، Mahvash نويسنده Professor, Department of Medical and Surgical Nursing, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran , , Ebadi، Abbas نويسنده , , Rahnavard، Zahra نويسنده Department of Community Health Nursing, School of Nursing
and Midwifery, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, IR
Iran , , Maleki، Farzaneh نويسنده Department of Community Health Nursing, School of Nursing
and Midwifery, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, IR
Iran ,
Abstract :
Although using the nursing process improves nursing care quality, few studies have evaluated nursing performance in accordance with nursing process steps either nationally or internationally. This study aimed to audit nursing care based on a nursing process model. This was a cross-sectional descriptive study in which a nursing audit checklist was designed and validated for assessing nurses’ compliance with nursing process. A total of 300 nurses from various clinical settings of Tehran university of medical sciences were selected. Data were analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics, including frequencies, Pearson correlation coefficient and independent samples t-tests. The compliance rate of nursing process indicators was 79.71 ± 0.87. Mean compliance scores did not significantly differ by education level and gender. However, overall compliance scores were correlated with nurses’ age (r = 0.26, P = 0.001) and work experience (r = 0.273, P = 0.001). Nursing process indicators can be used to audit nursing care. Such audits can be used as quality assurance tools
