Perception of staff nurses regarding quality audit process in hospitals of Mangalore District, Karnataka

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...

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Published in:	Nursing journal of India Vol. 103; no. 5; p. 204
Main Authors:	Rao, Radhika K, Alva, Janet, Sudhakar, Christopher, Lhamo, Nyima, Jose, Dona Mary, Mathew, Jestymol, Paul, Dinsa, Netto, Nimil, Sunny, Geethu Ann
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	India 01-09-2012
Subjects:	Adult Attitude of Health Personnel Female Health Care Surveys Humans India Male Nursing Audit Nursing Staff, Hospital India
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Summary:	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.
ISSN:	0029-6503