Nurse and nursing documentation

This bachelor thesis deals with the issue of using nursery documentation and working with this documentation. The nursery documentation forms fundamental material contributing to the correct operation of the patients? hospital care. These documents should be unconditionally maintained about each hospitalized patient as this fact also arises from the Czech legislation. The nurse?s work with the nursery documents is based on its correct, faultless and legible maintenance. The nurse records quality, actual, complete and essential information regarding the patient?s health condition in this documentation and works with these data which she uses in the nursing process. The most used form of the maintenance of the nursery documentation is a written form. Nowadays a nurse meets also with an electronic form of the nursery documents which is to help her to get more time for communication and care for the patient. The aim of this bachelor thesis was to discover the use of the nursery documentation in the selected hospital facility. The research investigation was executed by quantitative method. Case interpretations were processed based on interviews and the most important data were put in categorization tables. The research investigation was executed with ten randomly selected sisters who work in a neurosurgical and cardio-surgical department in the hospital Na Homolce. A wide spectre of problems occurred with the maintenance of the nursery documents