TY - JOUR
T1 - Perception of staff nurses regarding quality audit process in hospitals of Mangalore District, Karnataka.
AU - Rao, Radhika K.
AU - Alva, Janet
AU - Sudhakar, Christopher
AU - Lhamo, Nyima
AU - Jose, Dona Mary
AU - Mathew, Jestymol
AU - Paul, Dinsa
AU - Netto, Nimil
AU - Sunny, Geethu Ann
PY - 2012/1/1
Y1 - 2012/1/1
N2 - As in other fields, auditing in clinical nursing can go a long way in enhancing the productivity of nurses. Nursing audit is helpful in ascertaining the extent to which the organisation complies with the relevant quality norms and can involve in procedural or assessment criteria. Purposive sampling technique was used in this study which involved 255 staff nurses from two hospitals of Karnataka. The study tools included demographic proforma and audit scale (arbitrarily classified as unfavourable and favourable perception) to evaluate the impact of hospital and community-based clinical audit programme. It was shown that in selected hospitals, staff nurses had positive perception about the audit process; they also reported improvement in their levels of knowledge, skill and patient care though frequent audit hindered them in discharge of their duties.
AB - As in other fields, auditing in clinical nursing can go a long way in enhancing the productivity of nurses. Nursing audit is helpful in ascertaining the extent to which the organisation complies with the relevant quality norms and can involve in procedural or assessment criteria. Purposive sampling technique was used in this study which involved 255 staff nurses from two hospitals of Karnataka. The study tools included demographic proforma and audit scale (arbitrarily classified as unfavourable and favourable perception) to evaluate the impact of hospital and community-based clinical audit programme. It was shown that in selected hospitals, staff nurses had positive perception about the audit process; they also reported improvement in their levels of knowledge, skill and patient care though frequent audit hindered them in discharge of their duties.
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M3 - Article
C2 - 24597094
AN - SCOPUS:84897091200
SN - 0029-6503
VL - 103
SP - 204
EP - 205
JO - The Nursing journal of India
JF - The Nursing journal of India
IS - 5
ER -