Effectiveness of continual education on quality of nursing records

Documentation is one of the most important nursing functions that one third of their time are spent for them. Since documentation is recording all of cares delivered to patient, the result of the care and patient response to treatment, and all that has been done does show in documentation. The present research is the semi-experimental study with purpose of determining effect of continuing education on quality of nursing records. The samples consist of nursing personnels of medical-surgical units that responsible for documenting of nursing records Gorgan teaching hospital. Prior to and after education, the content and structure of records were evaluated, scored and mean of scores were comparated by a check-list analysis of findings indicated significant differences between mean of scores prior to and after education (P<0.001). The results showed that we can use continual education for promotion of nursing record quality.