Nursing Documentation and its Communicability : Experiences from Ghana

ISBN-13: 9783659255878 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 132 str.

Beatrice Bella Johnson

Opis

Quality patient information has been proven to enhance the quality of care patients receive, as well as the guarantee of their safety which is pivotal in health care delivery, . This is because information would be available to inform others and subsequently aid appropriate decision making concerning patient care. On the other hand, nurses being the professionals who spend twenty-four hours with the patients have a lot of information to capture from observation and patients care. Since Nursing Documentation provides a lot of information to guide decision-making,it needs to be efficient in order to be effective. This book analyses the effectiveness of nursing documentation as a communication tool among health professionals involved in patient care as well as exploits ways of improving upon its efficiency in a Ghanaian Hospital. Also the book serves as an empirical research base and provides insight into issues in nursing documentation and accordingly would inform the nursing body.

O autorze

Beatrice Bella Johnson holds a Master of Science Degree in Telemedicine and eHealth from the University of Tromsø,Norway and a Bachelor Degree in Nursing with Psychology from the University of Ghana.Currently a Senior Health Tutor at the Nurses Training College,Ho,Ghana with 12years experience in Nursing.Her research area is Nursing Documentation