Book Description
The process of documenting and recording nursing care has reached a new art form with the use of specially designed forms, integrated patient records and computer technology. In this book, documentation takes on a new value and new meaning as it reveals not only how nurses write but how they obtain information on which to base the care and services they provide as well as the quality of that care. It has much to offer to the practising nurse, the nurse academic or the casual reader. It provides useful and meaningful insights into the progress of the nursing profession over the last twenty years.
Key Features
- This is a book for nurses who care about what they write
- Numerous concerns about documentation are answered by several experienced authors
- A wide variety of illustrations, tables and examples
- Clear, concise, common sense text
- Applicable to health care staff in a wide variety of settings
- Universal applicability and appeal
About The Editor
Jennifer Richmond
Jennifer Richmond has a long-standing interest in the many voices that make up the nursing profession; from the tales and anecdotes that nurses love, to the way individual nurses write in client records and the collective voice of nursing's documentation systems. After nursing for 25 years in acute, community, aged and palliative care settings, Jennifer is currently completing studies in professional writing and editing. In this volume she combines her two interests: nursing and writing. As author and co-author of a number of other nursing publications, including Unique and Ordinary: reflections on living and dying in a nursing home, Jennifer is now pleased to add her thoughts to the accumulated wisdom of the seasoned nurses in this volume who reflect on how nurses document, and how to do it better.
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