Importance of Revised Nursing Documentation in Educational Proces of Community Health Care

Abstract

The paper reports student's perceptions of revised community nursing documentation. Documentation in community nursing is an efficient tool to ensure quality nursing care and consequently quality treatment. The aim of study was to get students perceptions of revised documentation within new design, content, structural approach aimed at community health care. The paper deals with the results of a research performed on a sample of 52 students from University of Ljubljana, College of Health studies in Ljubljana, nursing department in the year 2004. They are nursing students in the 5. semester and they tested revised documentation during three weeks of community nursing practice.They had to complete a questionnaire form.The questionnaire consists of 21 statements. The correlations analysis has shown that those who think that the documentation was good structured, also agree that it was good organized, assures continuity of nursing, qualitative treatment of patients and review over performed work. Finally we can conclude that good structured understandable documentation can appear to the quality of work as to the nurses’ interpersonal relations. Key words: community nursing, student, documentation