Beta
380213

Assessment of Head Nurses' Practice Regarding Nursing Round

Article

Last updated: 03 Jan 2025

Subjects

-

Tags

-

Abstract

Background: Nursing round is integral to the continuity of high quality care. Nursing involvement is crucial to the effectiveness of the nursing process. Aim: This study was aimed at assessing the head nurses practice regarding nursing round. Research design: A descriptive design was used in carrying out this study. Study setting: at Arab Contractors Medical Center. Study subjects: all available head nurses their number was (42). Tools: one tool was used in data collection included nursing round observational checklist for head nurses. Results: The study sample of head nurses whose age ranged between 30 and 58 years, but one (2.4%) being male, and having a bachelor' degree in nursing. Their experience ranged between 9 and 35 years, with great majority of them (92.9%) were married. Concerning the practice of nursing round preparation as observed among head nurses, some items were observed to be done by all of them (100.0%) such as reviewing shift report, and kardex, at the other extreme, only one (5.6%) of them practiced the items related to other physical assessment tools, and (2.4%) related to the aim and outcome of nursing round. More than half of the items were observed to be done by the majority at the implementation stage of nursing round, reaching 100.0% for the items related to patient condition, recording all details in kardex. Conversely, only a few of them were observed to practice infection control precautions (4.8%), and encouraged patient participation (9.5%). The practice of nursing round termination as observed among head nurses was generally low. Only the item related to patient safety was observed to be done by all of them (100.0%). On the other hand, only three (7.1%) of them practiced the item related to the quality of nursing care. The adequate practice of the three stages observed among the head nurses was very low for the preparation (16.7%) and termination (11.9%) stages, while the majority (83.3%) had adequate practice of the implementation stage. Conclusion: the assessment of the nursing round practice is effective in assessing and improving the deficient practice among the head nurses. Recommendations: the study recommends improvement of the head nurses performance regarding nursing rounds through in-service training program, and more frequent meeting with supervisors.  Scheduling fixed times for rounds. Further research is proposed to evaluate the long term positive practice of the nursing round revealed in the present study, and to explore the effectiveness of the nursing round practice in other organizations, as well as on head nurses and patients' outcomes.

DOI

10.21608/ejhc.2024.380213

Authors

First Name

Rehab

Last Name

Khalil Saleh

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

MS.c., in Nursing Administration, Faculty of Nursing – Ain-Shams University.

Email

-

City

-

Orcid

-

First Name

Samah

Last Name

Faisal Fakhry

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Professor of Nursing Administration, Faculty of Nursing – Ain-Shams University.

Email

-

City

-

Orcid

-

First Name

Samah

Last Name

Mohamed Elsayed

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Assist. Professor of Nursing Administration Faculty of Nursing – Ain-Shams University.

Email

-

City

-

Orcid

-

First Name

Galila

Last Name

Abd EL-Ghaffar

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Lecturer of Nursing Administration- Faculty of Nursing- Ain-Shams University.

Email

-

City

-

Orcid

-

Volume

15

Article Issue

3

Related Issue

49421

Issue Date

2024-09-01

Receive Date

2024-09-17

Publish Date

2024-09-01

Page Start

806

Page End

813

Print ISSN

1687-9546

Online ISSN

3009-6766

Link

https://ejhc.journals.ekb.eg/article_380213.html

Detail API

https://ejhc.journals.ekb.eg/service?article_code=380213

Order

380,213

Type

Original Article

Type Code

631

Publication Type

Journal

Publication Title

Egyptian Journal of Health Care

Publication Link

https://ejhc.journals.ekb.eg/

MainTitle

Assessment of Head Nurses' Practice Regarding Nursing Round

Details

Type

Article

Created At

24 Dec 2024