Documentation: Sharpening Your Skills

Award(s):
Columbus International Film and Video Festival, Honorable Mention

Proper documentation is critical on many levels, yet can be challenging in today’s healthcare environment. This program will help clinical staff learn the proper documentation skills to provide quality patient care, and satisfy legal and regulatory requirements.

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Learning Objective: To educate healthcare professionals on the importance of good documentation practices, the consequences of poor documentation, and provide practical solutions to overcome obstacles and barriers

In today's healthcare environment there are many obstacles that challenge our ability to document well: Time constraints... staff shortage... lack of standardized systems... numerous checklists... the list goes on and on.

This program will sharpen your documentation skills by focusing on:

• Overcoming obstacles and barriers to good documentation
• Benefits of quality documentation
• Professional and legal responsibilities
• Characteristics of good documentation
• Documentation requirements (as issued by regulatory and accreditation agencies)
• Documentation techniques
• Tips for improving documentation skills

Available with the purchase of this program is Documentation Skills for Quality Patient Care by Fay Yocum, a 270 page manual that discusses in detail many of the national standards, and practical pointers to comply with standards.

• New Employee Orientation
• Annual In-Service
• Mandatory Training
• Nursing Education
• Remedial/Risk Reduction Training

Critical Thinking Skills: Thinking Your Way to Better Patient Care

18 minutes

It is imperative that nurses develop and continue to enhance their critical thinking skills.