Nursing Documentation

Course overview

Adequate health care documentation can be a means to ensure the safe and effective administration of health care to patients in need. However, poor health care documentation can be quite the opposite. Poor health care documentation can lead to miscommunication among health care professionals, inaccurate patient records and, ultimately, patient adverse events and even patient mortalities. Thus, it is imperative for health care professionals to complete adequate and effective health care documentation. This course will review the roles, importance and impact of health care documentation, while providing health care professionals with an understanding of how to complete adequate and effective health care documentation.