Premium
Factors influencing staff nurses' decisions for non‐documentation of patient response to analgesia administration
Author(s) -
ALBRECHT MARY NIES,
COOK JEANETTE E.,
RILEY MARVEL JEAN,
ANDREONI VICKI
Publication year - 1992
Publication title -
journal of clinical nursing
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.94
H-Index - 102
eISSN - 1365-2702
pISSN - 0962-1067
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2702.1992.tb00112.x
Subject(s) - documentation , audit , nursing , nursing staff , medicine , descriptive research , administration (probate law) , perception , descriptive statistics , psychology , business , statistics , accounting , mathematics , neuroscience , computer science , political science , law , programming language
Summary• The purpose of this descriptive field study is to determine what factors influence staff nurses' decisions for non‐documentation of patients' response to analgesic administration. • The study, based on Herbert Simon's descriptive model of decision making, has two components: (a) to determine staff nurses' perceptions of the factors that influence their documentation as well as how frequently they document analgesic administration and (b) to determine the actual frequency of nurses' documentation. • Data collected from 67 staff nurses using a questionnaire designed for this study and through an audit of 65 patients' charts allowed comparison of nurses' perceptions with their actual practice. • Analysis involved both quantitative and qualitative approaches. • The results of the study have implications for nurse educators and nurse administrators.