Nursing process is a framework used to provide an effective, coordinated, and organized quality care for patients. Effective\nimplementation of this framework leads to improved quality of care and decreases potential complication, hospital length of stay,\nand the cost of care. To assess implementation of nursing process and its hindering factors, a quantitative cross-sectional study\nwas conducted among nurses in Afar region hospitals from October 2016 to December 2016. The data were collected from 102\nnurses using primary Brookingâ??s ward nursesâ?? self-report questionnaire and with some newly prepared questions. The collected\ndata were entered using Epi-Data version 3.1 and analyzed by SPSS version 20 and then presented by tables, graphs, and figures.\nForty-three (42.1%) nurseswere implementing nursing process at the time of data collection.Assessment and diagnosiswere carried\nout by 57 (56.9%) nurses, planning by 46% of nurses, implementation by 38.2% of nurses, and evaluation by 36.2% of nurses in Afar\nregion.Among the hindering factors towards nursing process implementation, lack of preparedness or knowledge about the nursing\nprocess or some part of it (83.3%) and absence of in-service training pertinent to nursing process (75.5%) were the most mentioned\nones. Generally, nursing process was poorly implemented in Afar regionmainly due to lack of knowledge and absence of in service\ntraining. Therefore, giving emphasis for cognitive parts of students about nursing process during their school time and refreshing\nnurse staffs with continuous training will definitively improve level of nursing process implementation.
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