Eva Akugizibwe2025-10-162025-10-162025-10-01https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11951/1967Postgraduate thesisBackground/Purpose: Nursing documentation is an obligation of all nurses who provide care. Globally literature has shown that proper documentation of nursing care improves communication among the health team and reduces nursing and medical errors. Nursing process is the internationally recognized framework for nurses to document care. The study examined the effects of a nursing process-based documentation checklist on the knowledge of nurses and their documentation practices in Uganda. Theoretical/Conceptual Framework: VIPS Model of Nursing Documentation guided the creations of a documentation checklist and the study questionnaire. The five steps of documenting described in the VIPS model served as the basis for the preparation of the continuing medical education on nurses' documentation utilizing the nursing process. Methodology: The study used a quasi-experimental pretest-posttest study design. Before intervention, the participants filled self-administered questionnaires. An educational intervention was introduced starting with the CME on documenting care using the nursing process and later introduced a nursing process-based documentation checklist. After the intervention, data was again collected using the same questionnaire used at pre- intervention. Results: The study discovered that the introduction of a nursing process-based checklist and an educational intervention had a significant effect on nurses’ knowledge of documentation using the nursing process. The findings also demonstrated an improvement of documentation of nursing care. Conclusion: Nurses can improve both their knowledge and practice of documentation if they have checklist based on nursing process as their guide. Recommendation: Nurse leaders/administrators should advocate for a summarized format of documenting nursing care countrywide based on nursing process. There should be a plan for regular training of nurses of documentation and lastly nurse supervisors should always make spot checks to see the documentation is done. Nurses at all levels should be reminded that documenting care is their obligation. They should take documentation as part of their daily routines as they provide care for patients and communities. Nurses should also be encouraged to embrace the use of a nursing process-based checklist to guide their daily documentation.enThesis