Nurses' Guide to Risk Management: Effective Documentation
Recording information in your patient's chart is a necessary and important part of your job as a nurse. Thorough documentation helps you know a patient's history, helps you monitor any changes in a patient's condition, and helps you make decisions about a patient's care. All of these things can in turn help ensure continuity of care. But, there are many ways that charting mistakes can be made which could hurt you if you are ever sued for malpractice.
By understanding where and how common charting errors occur, you can prevent mistakes in your own documentation. Through Nurses' Guide to Risk Management: Effective Documentation you can improve the way you chart patient information by reviewing:
- documentation formats as well as the strengths and weaknesses of each.
- the do's and don'ts of documentation for legally credible documentation.
- common documentation errors and the possible resulting dangers.
- the importance of safeguarding yourself from malpractice through clear, thorough documentation.
The content and tests are available online, through our partner, Data Trace Publishing Company for only $35. Review the series and take the tests online.
A 10% premium discount can be applied for the 6.0 ANCC/AACN contact hours received for taking and passing the NSO risk management course, provided that the certificate of completion is presented to NSO by mail at 159 East County Line Road, Hatboro, PA 19040 or by fax at 800-758-3635. The course must have been taken within last 12 months in order for discount to be applied. Full-time individual NSO customers cannot combine this discount with any other discount. This includes discounts for part-time, new graduate, retired or leave of absence. These customers may still take the course for CE credit, but are not eligible for the 10% premium discount.
Provider Information
The Nurse's Guide to Malpractice has been approved by the Maryland Nurses Association (MNA), which is accredited as an approver of continuing education in nursing by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's (ANCC) Commission on Accreditation (COA). The ANCC COA accreditation signifies that educational activities approved by MNA meet national standards for quality continuing nursing education.
Data Trace is a strong advocate of continuing education for professionals and has been a leader in delivering quality content through home-study since 1988. Our continuing education programs are designed to help today's professional practitioners manage an ever-increasing flow of information. By increasing the practitioner's knowledge of cutting edge information, the quality of patient care is enhanced. To meet the educational needs of today's medical practitioners, Data Trace provides in-depth audio lectures, discussion, and literature review of current topics in a proficient learning environment.
