Quality of Nurses Performance in Maternal and Child Health Centres

Abstract

uality of nursing performance is concerned with measuring the efficiency and effectiveness and determining the competency of the nursing process and activities used by the individual nurse in the care of clients. In the same context, quality of nursing performance integrates the performance appraisal function with other human resources systems to help align nurses‘ work behaviors with the organization‘s goals (Zhao & Fan, 2016). Maternal and Child Health (MCH) refer to care given to women during pregnancy, child birth and postpartum periods to ensure good health outcomes of the woman and baby; comprise antenatal care (ANC), labour and delivery (maternity) care and postnatal care (Abimbola et al., 2015). Maternal and child health (MCH) care is the health service provided to mothers (women in their child bearing age) and children. The targets for MCH are all women in their reproductive age groups, 15 - 49 years of age, children, school age population and adolescents (Keats et al., 2017). Aim of the Study: This study aimed to assess quality of performance among nurses in maternal and child health centers thro