Introduction: Professionals in home health nursing mainly work alone in patients’ homes. This makes documentation from the electronic patient record crucial for carrying out proper care. The aim of this study was to elaborate on knowledge of home health nursing professionals’ attitudes towards electronic nursing documentation, and to investigate whether attitudes towards documentation and its p...

Background: Accurate and complete documentation of nursing records is one of the preconditions of the evidence-based cares and is considered as one of the most important professional tasks in nursing. The aim of the present study was to audit the nursing reports in intubated neonates admitted in neonatal intensive care unit of Ayatollah Rouhani hospital, Babol. Methods: In this cross-section...

BACKGROUND An Austrian Nursing Minimum Data Set (NMDS-AT) has been developed to describe the diversity of patient populations and variability of nursing care based on nursing diagnoses, nursing interventions, and nursing outcomes. The aim of this study is to test the feasibility of using this NMDS-AT by assessing the availability of data needed for the NMDS-AT in routine nursing documentation, ...

MDS 3.0 SEction o: An UpDAtE for cErtifiED thErApEUtic rEcrEAtion prActicE With MEDicArE pAtiEntS To the Editor: Many nurses don’t realize that certified therapeutic recreation specialists (CTRSs) often oversee long-term care activities departments. Before they begin practicing, CTRSs must have a minimum of a bachelor of science degree and an intensive clinical internship under a licensed or ce...