The effect of training about the new intraoperative care documentation forms on the operating room personnel’ function in the context of the documentation.

Abstract

Introduction The perioperative documentation is essential for patient care, legal documentary and evidence of provided care and information production for research purposes. The aim of the present study was to determine the effect of training about the intraoperative care documentation forms on the operating room personnel’ function in the context of the documentation. Methods A quasi-experimental study was carried out on 97 technologists and nurses in the operating rooms of two hospitals, Isfahan, in 2017. Personnel was selected through convenient, then divided into equal experimental and control groups. A 1.5 hour training session through lecture about standards of operating room documentation and how to complete the five intraoperative care documentation forms was formed. Training was continued by social media during two months. Five Documentation Forms were used for 2 months and the documentation score of the research samples was expressed as percentage. In the control group, no training was performed and the score was obtained using a self-report questionnaire. Results In this research, about the experimental group 90/8% were women. 89/2% were surgical technologists and the rest were nurses.In the experimental group, the mean total score of the intraoperative care documentation forms was 93.19±5.18 out of 100, but in the control group, the mean total score of documentation was 42.89±34.07 out of 100. The mean total score of the intraoperative care documentation forms in the experimental group was significantly higher than control group (P<0.001). Conclusions Training standards of operating room documentation and the use of appropriately-structured forms can increase the operating room personnel’ function in the context of the documentation. Keywords: Training , Documentation , Operating Room , Intraoperative car