The study investigated the determinants of nursing process utilization among nurses in two selected tertiary hospitals in Lagos State, Nigeria. The study adopted descriptive cross-sectional design to identify the determinants of nursing process utilization among nurses in two selected tertiary hospitals in Lagos, Nigeria. The study was carried out in two tertiary hospitals in Lagos namely: National Orthopaedic Hospital Igbobi Lagos (NOHIL) and Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH). The research instruments used for this study were both a checklist and a self-structured close-ended questionnaire. Both questionnaire and checklist were developed from reviewed literature to cover the content of the research. The face and content validity of the instruments were determined by experts in Nursing Sciences. The reliability index of 0.849 was obtained to ensure internal consistency of the instrument. Cronbach Alpha was also used to determine the internal consistency of the checklist. The reliability index of 0.653 was obtained to ensure internal consistency of the checklist. The responses obtained were collated and analysed using descriptive statistics and inferential statistics of Analysis of Variance (ANOVA), t-test and Chi-square. All the hypotheses were tested at 0.05 level of significance. The findings of this study revealed that patient related factors were the major barrier affecting nursing process utilization in selected tertiary hospitals closely followed by organisation related factors while nurses related factors was the least barrier affecting nursing process utilization. In addition, utilization of nursing process differs based on nurses’ years of experience and type of tertiary hospital. It was recommended among others nursing administration should put measures in place to ensure that the nurses are well supervised to practice nursing process.

Keywords: Determinants, Nursing Process, Utilization, Nurses,

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