Patient record-keeping: How to avoid making serious mistakes or leaving gaps
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Patient record-keeping: How to avoid making serious mistakes or leaving gaps

Andrea Downey Health journalist
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Record-keeping errors can have serious consequences for patient safety and many result in fitness to practise proceedings. Read advice on maintaining accurate and timely documentation

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 Standard. 39, 10, 47-49. doi: 10.7748/ns.39.10.47.s17

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02 October 2024 / Vol 39 issue 10

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