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Bhattacharya, Chanu
- Documentation Guidelines Based on Expectation of Documentation Helps Accurate Documentation Among Nurses in Psychiatric Settings
Authors
1 Sakra World Hospital, Bangalore, IN
2 Father Muller Medical College Hospital, Mangalore, IN
Source
Asian Journal of Nursing Education and Research, Vol 6, No 2 (2016), Pagination: 260-264Abstract
Careful documentation is an integral part of nursing care. It is written information about a client that describes the care or service provided by nurse to client according to their need. Through documentation, nurses communicate their observations, decisions, actions and outcomes of these actions for clients. In the present study an 'ideal documentation guidelines of nurses caring mentally ill client' was developed which can be used by the psychiatric nurses for thorough assessment as well as assessment of the documents. The ideal documentation guidelines consist of four important care areas namely are admission, discharge, selected procedure and specific incident. The study was conducted to compare the expectation of documentation by nurse administrators and actual performance by staff nurses in selected settings. Twenty five administrative nurses and 25 staff nurses were participated in the study. Result showed assessment of majority of actual performance documentation by the staff nurses showed almost proper behaviours and remaining was partially proper. No nurses documentations depict nurses behaviours improper (lowest level) or (highest level) i.e. proper. Same manner administrative nurse also expected a behaviour from the staff nurses that was almost proper behaviours in documentation. Study revealed actual performance with documentation and expectation of the administrators has a significant relationship. Training, CNE etc which might power to improve administrative nurses expectations of behaviours in psychiatric settings but an ideal documentation format or guideline can help nurses to follow proper documentation behaviour which will be based on the ideal documentation guidelines.Keywords
Nursing Documentation, Nursing Assessment, Nursing Recording, Nursing Information.
- A Study to Assess Depression and Coping Strategies among Dermatological Patients in a Selected Hospital in Mangalore
Authors
1 Shri Vinoba Bhave College of Nursing, Silvassa, IN
2 Fr. Muller College of Nursing, Mangalore, IN
Source
Asian Journal of Nursing Education and Research, Vol 5, No 2 (2015), Pagination: 185-190Abstract
Depression can affect anyone and it is one of the most widespread illnesses, often co-existing with other serious illnesses. Also depressive disorders often start at in young age; they reduce people's functioning and often are recurring. The present study reviewed the potential effect of selected dermatological conditions beyond its dermatological manifestations and assessed the depression and coping strategies among dermatological patients. A descriptive research design was used for the present study. The sample consisted of 80 dermatological patients who have visited the dermatology OPD of Fr. Muller's Hospital in the month of data collection. Data was collected by administering Modified Beck depression inventory scale and Modified COPE rating scale. Data was analyzed by both descriptive and inferential statistics. The findings of present study highlights that majority (42.5%) of patients had no depressive symptoms. While 35% had mild mood disturbances, 5% had borderline clinical depression, 13.75% had moderate depression and 3.75% had severe depression. It was found that adequate and appropriate use of functional coping strategies would help the patients to avoid their depressive symptoms properly.