The Existence of Advocacy among Nurses Within Nursing Documentation in Malaysia: An Exploratory Study
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.31436/ijcs.v3i1.135Keywords:
Advocacy; Nursing Documentation; Malaysia.Abstract
Nursing documentation is vital to nursing care in hospitals. Literature suggests nursing documentation that contains evidence nursing care which has been planned and implemented have a significant relationship with nurses’ practice, particularly regarding the existence of advocacy. Despite the significance of nursing documentation in nursing practice, no study has been conducted and published on this crucial aspect of nursing practice, particularly in Malaysia. Hence, a qualitative design is utilised to explore how nurses in Malaysia demonstrate the element of advocacy in the context of their nursing documentation. A total of forty semi-structured interviews were conducted with nurses involved in completing the nursing documentation. Thematic analysis was used to identify categories and themes in nurses’ perceptions about the existence of advocacy in their documentation. Findings highlight that the nurses could comprehend and acknowledge the existence of advocacy within their documentation. These findings are likely to suggest to highlight the advocative roles of nursing documentation in nursing practice, besides the significance of education to improve advocacy among nurses in Malaysia.
References
Locke LF, Silverman SJ, Spirduso WW. Reading and understanding research (3rd edn.). USA: SAGE Publication, 2010.
Blake-Mowatt, C, Lindo JLM, Bennett J. Evaluation of registered nurses’ knowledge and practice of documentation at a Jamaican hospital. [internet]. International Nursing Review, 2013 [cited 2017 May 19];60, 328-334. Available from http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/inr.12040/epdf
Registered Nurses’ Association of Ontario (RNAO). Healthy work environments best practice guidelines: Professionalism in nursing. Nursing Best Practice Guidelines Program. [internet]. 2007 [cited 2017 April 12];Available from http://rnao.ca/sites/rnao-ca/files/Professionalism_in_nursing.pdf
Cribb A, Gewirtz S. Professionalism. UK: Polity, 2015.
Bunkenborg G. Samuel K, Akeson J, Poulsen I. Impact of professionalism in nursing on in-hospital bedside monitoring practice. [internet]. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 2012 [cited 2017 May 19];69 (7), 1466-1477. Available from http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com.libaccess.hud.ac.uk/doi/10.1111/jan.2003/pdf
Green J, Thorogood N. Qualitative methods for health research (3rd edn.).UK: SAGE publications, 2014.
Polit D, Beck CT. Nursing Research: Generating and assessing evidence for nursing practice (10th edn.). China: Wolters Kluwer Health/Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2011.
Crosby RA, Salazar LF, DiClemente RJ & Lang DL. Balancing rigor against the inherent limitation of investigating hard-to-reach population. [internet]. Global Public Health, 2010. Cited 2019 September 12]; 25(1), 1-5. Available from https://doi.org/10.1093/her/cyp06
Schneider Z, Whitehead D, LoBiondo-Wood G, Haber J. Nursing and midwifery Research: Methods, critical appraisal for evidence-based practice (4th edn.). Australia: Mosby, 2013.
Ghadirian F, Salsali M, Cheraqhi MA. Nursing professionalism: An evolutionary concept analysis. [internet]. Iran Journal of Nursing and Midwifery Research, 2014 [cited 2017 July 12];19(1), 1-10. Available from http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24554953
Witkoski A, Dickson VV. Hospital Staff Nurses' Work Hours, Meal Periods, and Rest Breaks: A Review from an Occupational Health Nurse Perspective. Workplace and Safety ,2010 [cited 2018 February 12];58(11). Available at https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/216507991005801106
Anderson ET & Mcfarlane JM. Community as partner: Theory and practice in nursing [internet]. American Journal of Nursing.1996. [cited 2017 April 11];96(10). Available from https://journals.lww.com/ajnonline/Citation/1996/10000/Community_as_Partner___Theory_and_Practice_in.15.aspx
Rasiah S, Jaafar S, Yusof S. A study of the nature and level of trust between patient and healthcare providers, its dimensions and determinants: a scoping review protocol BMJ Open 2020 [cited 2020 August 25]; 1028061.Available at https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/10/1/e028061
Andreae C, Ekstedt M, Snellman I. Patients’ participation as it appears in the nursing documentation, when care is ruled by standardised care plan [internet]. International Scholarly Research Network Nursing. 2011 [cited 2017 October 19];Available from http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3169373/
Kolanowski A, Muhall P, Yevchak, A, Hill N, Fick D. The triple challenge of recruiting older adults with dementia and high medical acuity in skilled nursing facilities. [internet]. Journal of Nursing Scholarship, 2013 [cited 2016 April 22]; 45 (4), 1-13. Available from http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3842393/
Nursing Board of Malaysia (2008). Code of Professional Conduct for Nurses. 2008. [cited 2018 February 12];Retrieved from http://peoplelearn.homestead.com/Topic9.Prof.Conduct.Malaysia.pdf
Battie R,Steelman, VM. Accountability in nursing practice: Why it is important for patient safety. [internet]. AORN Journal, 2014 [cited 2018 August 17];100(5), 537-541. Available from http://www.aornjournal.org/article/S0001-2092(14)00964-8/abstract
