Appendix 3 - Checklist

The checklist assesses nurses' understanding of standard nursing documentation based on a case study of a patient experiencing chest pain after a fall. It includes 15 statements about nursing knowledge, covering subjective and objective data, assessment techniques, and documentation practices, such as pain scoring, refusal of examination, and vital signs. The checklist also evaluates understanding of nursing diagnoses, intervention classifications, and outcome planning using SMART criteria. Following the checklist, comprehension test results from two hospitals show whether nurses correctly or incorrectly answered questions about documentation. For Hospital 1, each nurse's answers are marked as correct or wrong, while Hospital 2 shows the results of a group experiment with nurses undergoing treatment workshops, indicating improved comprehension through the workshop approach.