How to avoid making serious mistakes in your record-keeping
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How to avoid making serious mistakes in your record-keeping

Andrea Downey Health journalist

Record-keeping errors can jeopardise patient safety and many result in FtP proceedings. Read advice on keeping it accurate and timely

Record-keeping is a core part of nursing, yet poor practice in this area consistently features in the top concerns raised with the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC).

Nursing Children and Young People. 36, 6, 9-10. doi: 10.7748/ncyp.36.6.9.s3

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