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Notes on nursing documentation: quality criteria and views of nurses and patients.

Groot, K. de. Notes on nursing documentation: quality criteria and views of nurses and patients. Utrecht: Nivel, 2022. 196 p. Proefschrift van de Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
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Objective
Nursing documentation has to be an accurate reflection of the entire process of nursing care for individual patients. Nursing documentation is not an aim in itself; it is a vital source of information for nursing staff and essential for the patient’s safety and the quality of nursing care. However, there are indications that the quality of nursing documentation is often sub-optimal. How this quality can be improved was not clear and little was known about the challenges nursing staff and patients face in the use of electronic nursing documentation.

Aim
Therefore, this PhD thesis aims to give a better understanding of the quality criteria and the views of nursing staff and patients on nursing documentation, with a specific focus on electronic nursing documentation.

Key questions
1. What quality criteria should nursing documentation meet?
2. What are the perspectives and experiences of nursing staff regarding electronic nursing documentation?
3. What are the perspectives and experiences
of nurses and home-care patients regarding patient participation in electronic nursing documentation?