Records and Record-keeping: A Pocket Guide for Nursing and Health Care

This pocket guide is designed to demystify the subject of Records and Record-keeping for all those working in health and social care. Records and Record-keeping addresses all aspects of record keeping and documentation that student nurses need to know. The links to record keeping for child patients, the NMC code, data protection Act and process of accurate record keeping provides a very informative and concise reference for users. 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!

• | Author: Marc Cornock
• | Publisher: Lantern Publishing Ltd
• | Publication Date: Feb 27, 2024
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• | Binding: Spiral bound
• | ISBN-13: 9781914962202
• | ISBN-10: 1914962206