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The standards developed by the ANCC are the highest and most rigorous in the world, and this accreditation means that you can be sure that all nursing education available through The Learning Centre meets or exceeds these high standards. Ausmed Education's provider
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accreditation.
Ausmed Education Learning Centre is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation.
The standards developed by the ANCC are the highest and most rigorous in the world, and this accreditation means that you can be sure that all nursing education available through The Learning Centre meets or exceeds these high standards. Ausmed Education's provider
number is P0342.
Learn
more about
ANCC
accreditation.
Understanding Nursing Documentation
- Discusses the importance and purposes of nursing documentation
- Outlines the legal issues and ethics involved in nursing documentation
- Describes nursing practise protocol in regards to documentation
- Discusses the key management issues of documentation
Nursing documentation is vitally important, and it is essential that all aged care facilities have a clear vision of their objectives and requirements with respect to this aspect of care. It is essential that nurses follow the documentation requirements of the organisation in which they work. This chapter instructs nurses on the basics of nursing documentation, including the legal issues involved.
Contents include
- Introduction
- Key terms
- Importance of documentation
- Purposes of documentation
- Leadership
- Legal issues
- Ethics
- Values
- Nursing practice
- Codes of conduct
- Standards of practice
- Holistic nursing practice
- Reflective nursing practice
- Praxis
- Management issues
- Language, jargon, and forms of expression
- Documentation not being performed
- Qualifications of nursing staff, levels of experience, and staff skills mix
- Attitudes of nursing staff to documentation and time management skills
- Government regulation
- Conclusion
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