NURE Investigación (Sep 2006)
Evaluation of the relevance of the nursery report after being discharged from hospital by both internal and external users
Abstract
The importance of the approach between the service of primary attention (AP), and the service of specialised attention (AE) states the necessity of establishing mechanisms which integrate both systems. The objective of this study is to evaluate the usefulness perceived by internal and external users related to the nursing reports on hospital discharges, elaborated by the AE nurses and sent to AP professionals.A transversal descriptive study had been made whose study sample were patients, AE nurses belonging to the hospitalisation units, and AP nurses from all the health centres in Area III. In order to achieve this, the required questionnaires were made using ordinal qualitative variables.The obtained results identified that AP nurses considered 60,86% as normal the period of time between the sending of the report and its reception.The presence of nursing diagnosis expressed in NANDA taxonomy in the edited report was positively accepted by 43,47% among AP nurses, and 53,84% among AE nurses. Both professionals coincide in the elaboration of the report considering it essential or very important (78,25% AP; 73,07% AE)The same way, 65,38% of hospital nurses consider essential or very important making public an AP report for patients admitted in a programmed way. In relation to patients and their main caretakers, 94,28% of patients considered that the report was properly explained to them when handed out, and also 96,87% confirmed that the given information was useful and easy to understand.As a conclusion we could say that both groups confirm the necessity and usefulness of a nursing report after being discharged from hospital, which contributes to a better continuity and equality in the nursery care.
