Abstract
Background and aim : Nursing process is a deliberate problem solving approach for meeting people's healthcare needs .Using nursing process helps to improve the quality of patient care. The aim of this study was todetermine the effect of nursing process implementation on quality of nursing care of patients hospitalized insurgical wards at Shahid Beheshty hospital in Yasuj city in 2012.Method and Material: This was a quasi- experimental study with befor-after design. The sample of theconsisted of 48 nurses working in surgical wards of teaching hospitals affiliated to Yasoj Medical University.The samples were selected by using purposive sampling. The nursing care quality was evaluated by using thequality patient care scale (Qual PacS) checklist, that its validity were determined by face and content validityand its reliability was determined by using inter-observer (ICC=0.86) . Initially the nursing care quality wasevaluated. Nurses participated in an educational program on nursing process and its implementation. Afterone month the quality of nursing care was assessed again. Data were analyzed by SPSS 16 software andusing paired t-test.Results: This study showed a significant difference between the quality of nursing care in meetingpsychosocial needs (p=0.031) communication needs (p=0.012), physical aspects of care (p=0.047) and theoverall quality of nursing care (p=0.001) before and after implementation of nursing process.Conclusions: The results of this study showed that nursing process implementation can improve the qualityof nursing care of patients in surgical wards.Keywords: Quality of nursing care, Nursing care, Nursing process.
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