Question

Submit a summary of six of your articles on improving the quality of nursing documentation in home healthcare setting. Discuss one strength and one weakness to each of these six articles on why the article may or may not provide sufficient evidence for your practice change.

Answer 1

1. knowledge

Strength-if proper knowledge is there like how to do documentation then it will give better understanding of work which had been done and what to be done .

Weakness-inadequate knowledge may affect documentation style.

2. Skill in nursing practice-

Strength- if proper/good practice is there in documentation then they can do better in this process.

Weakness- if there is no proper skill developed in nursing personnel then they may do improper documentation.

3.evidence based practice-

Strength- it gives knowledge about the new findings and make the person more creative and gives better understanding based on current requirements and proper understanding about the documentation process.

Weakness- it takes too much time so nurses may avoid to do evidence based practice and they can follow the traditional method for documentation work.

4.continue education

Strength-if nurses will be having continue education then easily then can learn advancment in nursing documentation process.

Weakness- sometimes in remote areas or private institution nursrs do not get continue education facility.

5. Nursing assessment and proper implementation

Strength- if objective and subjective nursing assessment will be done properly then nurses can get the knowledge what all point should be included in it based on actual problem and implementated work .

Weakness- objective and subjective assessment is time consuming process and if nurse will not be having too much time then she can not do properly.

6.method of documentation

Strength- nowadays electronic medias are available for documentation which is easy to do and less time consuming in comparison to pen and paper documentation.

Weakness- for electronic media documentation needs proper training of staff.