Improving Your Observation and Documentation Skills in Nursing

Description

Careful observation is vital to being an effective part of a health care team, helping all team members provide better care for the client and ensuring a reliable medical record. This program focuses on knowing how to make good objective observations, gathering the client's subjective input, and reporting and recording all pertinent information. It shows how to use sight, hearing, smell, and touch; interpret body language; and document observations correctly. Nursing assistants and home health aides will learn how to become more generally attuned to client needs and more familiar with the Patient's Bill of Rights-making care of the client more effective and rewarding.

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28 min

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Date of Publication

[2011], c2003

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