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Developing multidisciplinary profiles in a day hospital

31 January 2001

Nursing Standard

Art & Science

The Ferguson Day Hospital provides a patient-centred, multidisciplinary service for patient assessment and rehabilitation. The authors describe the development of a...

Record keeping – just for the fun of it?

01 February 2005

Paediatric Nursing

Clinical

‘Record keeping’ in the title of an article doesn’t have too much of a lure to it does it? It is odd how something so essential somehow gets put to the bottom of the...

Using patients’ records as a source of data

26 May 1999

Nursing Standard

Art & Science

This article discusses the use of patients’ records as a data source. It examines the ethical issues involved in using patients’ records, as well as their potential...

Record keeping in intravenous therapy: do yours meet the standards?

01 March 2001

Paediatric Nursing

Clinical

How often are your care plans and fluid balance charts audited in relation to management of intravenous therapy? If the answer is never, how confident are you that...

Nursing care plans in acute mental health nursing

01 November 2000

Mental Health Practice

CPD

Aims and intended learning outcomes This article promotes the care plan as a means of providing more effective care on acute inpatient units. It emphasises the use...

Information governance:practical implications for record-keeping

23 May 2006

Nursing Standard

Learning zone

This article outlines nurses’ legal and professional responsibility to adhere to good practice in keeping patients’ notes up to date. It provides a description of...

Records management guidance and its implications for research

01 April 2008

Nurse Researcher

General

This paper discusses the Records Management: NHS Code of Practice (Department of Health (DH) 2006) and describes how it affects the management of data in research....

Physiological observation track and trigger system

15 March 2006

Nursing Standard

Art & Science

A patient observation chart was developed to combine physiological observation charting with the calculation and recording of an early warning score (EWS); this was...

Information governance: practical implications for record-keeping

17 May 2006

Nursing Standard

CPD

This article outlines nurses’ legal and professional responsibility to adhere to good practice in keeping patients’ notes up to date. It provides a description of...

Hydroxyurea information for children and parents

01 March 2003

Paediatric Nursing

Clinical

Provision of accurate, understandable information has always been, and will continue to be, a vital element in patient care. Information about medication and other...