A pre-post interventional study to reduce time spent on clinical documentation by nurses and midwives.

Aim: To evaluate the impact of a co-designed intervention to reduce time spent on clinical documentation and increase time for direct patient care.

Design: A pre- and post-test interventional study with multi-method evaluation, reported according to the Transparent Reporting of Evaluations with Nonrandomised Evaluations Designs guidelines.

Methods: An intervention to decrease the burden of documentation was co-designed and implemented.

Is nursing and midwifery clinical documentation a burden? An empirical study of perception versus reality.

Aims And Objectives: To measure time spent on clinical documentation and nurses and midwives' perceptions of this aspect of their role.

Background: Nurses and midwives rely on accurate documentation when planning care. However, documenting and communicating care can be onerous, time-consuming and at times duplicated or redundant.

Neonatal Admission and Its Relationship to Maternal Pain: Pain Scores and Analgesia.

The aim of this study was to determine whether postnatal women whose babies required neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) admission self-reported lower pain scores and required less analgesia than women whose babies remained with them. A prospective matched audit comparing pain scores and analgesia requirements where every woman with a baby admitted to the NICU was matched to 2 women whose babies remained on the ward was undertaken. Matches were based on age, number of previous births, type of birth, episiotomy, and epidural or spinal analgesia use.