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A Rehabilitation NURSING RECORD

AJN, American Journal of Nursing, 1961
TIMES HAVE CHANGED and nursing has changed. Nurses and patients alike complain that the service given by nurses is less personal, less individual, less satisfying than that of many years ago. Nurses everywhere are writing and talking about the principles of patient-centered care. One mechanism that helps us in our efforts to apply such principles is an
G, GREENE, L, ROBINS
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Nurses are accountable for their records

British Journal of Nursing, 1999
We all practice in a healthcare environment where the need to improve our record keeping standards has never been greater. The NHS is currently facing an estimated clinical negligence bill of around £2.8 billion. More than 800 medical accidents occur in NHS hospitals every day, about 200 of which are the result of negligence (Laurence, 1999).
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Use of narrative nursing records for nursing research.

NI 2012 : 11th International Congress on Nursing Informatics, June 23-27, 2012, Montreal, Canada. International Congress in Nursing Informatics (11th : 2012 : Montreal, Quebec), 2013
To explore the usefulness of narrative nursing records documented using a standardized terminology-based electronic nursing records system, we conducted three different studies on (1) the gaps between the required nursing care time and the actual nursing care time, (2) the practice variations in pressure ulcer care, and (3) the surveillance of adverse ...
Hyeoun-Ae Park, InSook Cho, Hee-Jung Ahn
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Doctors, Nurses, and Clinical Records

Medical Care, 1973
Previous work has suggested a number of relationships between structural characteristics of medical care units and the quality of medical performance. Detailed chart audits were carried out in five comprehensive child care clinics and measures of clinic structure and staff attitudes were also obtained, making it possible to examine some of the proposed
C A, Nathanson, M H, Becker
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Nursing Documentation in Patient Records

Scandinavian Journal of Caring Sciences, 1996
The correct documentation of nursing care is a very important prerequisite for safe care. An extensive survey (n = 380 records), was conducted, using the NoGa© protocol for a review of the nurses' documentation. The documentation revealed considerable deficiencies in most of the wards, and the nursing history, status and planned interventions were ...
G, Nordström, A, Gardulf
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Improving nursing records with audit

Nursing Standard, 1993
This article describes the efforts of one unit to introduce an audit tool to measure the effectiveness of nursing documentation. After two years of use, the authors have been able to show that the quality of documentation is significantly better and patients have benefited from the improved communication that has resulted.
C, Roberts, R, Smith
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NURSES' RECORDS AND HOME NURSING

JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, 1927
To the Editor: —During the last few years I have noticed that an increasing number of nurses who are sent to private homes are careless about keeping records. This applies to those who are graduates of the better nursing schools as well as to those who hold diplomas from less well known institutions.
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What to include in a nursing record

British Journal of Nursing, 2016
Richard Griffith, senior Lecturer in Health Law, Swansea University, explains in this second article on recordkeeping the elements of a good record and what to include when making an entry in a patient's record.
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Nursing records prove invaluable

Nursing Standard, 1990
In the light of a recent murder trial in which two defendants accused of murdering their child, which attracted considerable press coverage, I feel it is necessary to emphasise how important nursing records are.
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Medical Records Course for Nurses

The American Journal of Nursing, 1950
M ANY nursing students probably feel that the hospital medical record librarian is a fussy individual who is overly concerned with filling out blank spaces on a printed form and insisting that they do the same. Fussy? Perhaps. Overly concerned? No! Time after time the life of a patient, the professional standing and financial well-being of a doctor ...
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