Bezabih, Adugna (2017) Improving Knowledge Flow for Nursing Care in Tuberculosis Management: The Case of St. Peter‘S and Alert Hospitals. Masters thesis, Addis Ababa University.
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Abstract
Background: - Utilizing Knowledge Management Systems (KMS) to manage medical information and health care knowledge to support the full spectrum of knowledge needs in the nursing process has become an important issue for nursing professionals. However, despite its benefits, many nurses are not yet to fully understand and put to practice the nursing process. This may have led to poor patient care and outcome and it is the basis for this studies which to introduce knowledge management blueprint so as to improve nursing care tuberculosis management in St. peter‘s and Alert hospitals. Methods: - A cross sectional design employing quantitative and qualitative methods was conducted in St. Peter‘s and Alert hospitals. Qualitative data was collected from 4 head nurse and matron two hospitals and quantitative was collected from 199 nurses selected by simple random sampling technique from the two hospitals proportional to their size. SPSS version 20 and thematic analysis was used for quantitative and qualitative data respectively. Findings from the study showed that nurses of St. Peter‘s hospital and alert hospitals have poor implementation of nursing process in tuberculosis management. According to multivariate analysis, the factors that were independent predictors of knowledge flow are; good knowledge, in presence of organizational ICT, training to better knowledge capability, work experience. Knowledge flow practice of implementation nursing process during tuberculosis management of nurses good knowledge is by 7.5 times greater in presence of good knowledge than poor knowledge, knowledge flow of nursing care for tuberculosis treatment is by 17.4 times greater in presence of organizational ICT training than absence of ICT training in the organization and knowledge flow of nursing care for tuberculosis treatment is by 19.5 times greater in nurses having work experience of >15 years than those having <1year of experience. Designed knowledge flow to enable information technology plays its part in enhancing knowledge creation and sharing in these hospitals to make common understanding between nurses. Concluding and Remark: The study shows that most of nurses are aware of knowledge flow during nursing process which will improve quality of tuberculosis management and have appropriate design for knowledge creation and sharing way but they are not engaged in knowledge sharing frequently. So these hospital administrations should plan a way to strengthen knowledge creation and sharing practice by improving the identified knowledge flow factors and implement the designed knowledge flow blueprint which will improve implementation of nursing process.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Masters) |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | knowledge flow, blueprint, nursing process, Assessment, Diagnosis, planning, evaluation. |
| Subjects: | L Education > L Education (General) R Medicine > R Medicine (General) R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine > RA0421 Public health. Hygiene. Preventive Medicine |
| Divisions: | Africana |
| Depositing User: | Selom Ghislain |
| Date Deposited: | 25 Jun 2018 11:41 |
| Last Modified: | 25 Jun 2018 11:41 |
| URI: | http://thesisbank.jhia.ac.ke/id/eprint/4514 |
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