Records and Record-keeping

A Pocket Guide for Nursing and Health Care

Marc Cornock author

Format:Spiral bound

Publisher:Lantern Publishing Ltd

Published:27th Feb '24

Should be back in stock very soon

Records and Record-keeping cover

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!

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. * Senior Lecturer, University of South Wales *

ISBN: 9781914962202

Dimensions: 148mm x 105mm x 9mm

Weight: unknown

74 pages