Records and record-keeping : a pocket guide for nursing and health care

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 ishow health records are managedwho has access to health recordsthe importance of maintaining a patient's health recordbest practice in keeping recordsWritten 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!