Effective record-keeping is essential to health care. This book is a handy pocket-sized guide to keeping good health records that treats the process as an integral part of your everyday practice.
Every healthcare practitioner is expected to record their interactions with a patient in the patient's health record, and this pocket guide is full of practical detail about:
- what a health record is and what its purpose is
- how health records are managed
- who has access to health records
- the importance of maintaining a patient's health record
- best practice in keeping records
Written by an experienced lecturer with input provided by current nursing students, this guidance is produced with you in mind - and you can carry it with you at all times!