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Documentation
If it is not charted,
it wasn’t done!!!
Documentation
The written or printed legal record of all pertinent
interactions with the client.
It reflects quality of care and accountability in
providing care.
Health personal communicate through:
• Discussion
• Reports
• Records
Documentation
A discussion: informal oral consideration of a
subject by 2 or more health care personnel to ID
problem or establish strategies to resolve a problem
A report: is oral, written or computer-based
communication intended to convey information to
others (endorsement).
A record (chart or client record): is a formal, legal
document that provides evidence of a client’s care.
Can be written or computer based.
The process of making entry on a client record is
called recording, charting, or documenting.
Documentation Purposes
Communication
Planning client care uses data from the client records
to plan care
Auditing heath agencies: review of client records for
quality assurance purpose
Research: data can be valuable resource for research
Education: Students often use client records as
educational tools
Legal Documentation: used in the court as
evidence
Reimbursement: for obtaining payment
through medicare, the client’s record must
contain the correct diagnosis-related group
codes and reveal that the appropriate care has
been given
Health care analysis: to ID health care agency
needs, ID services that cost money and those
that generate revenue
Documentation Systems
Intervention
Evaluation
NANDA used to word the problem
The problem statement, intervention and evaluation
where numbered the same
Advantage: eliminate traditional CP and
incorporates an ongoing care plan
Disadvantage: all nursing note should be reviewed
before giving care to determine which problems are
current and which intervention were effective.
IV. Focus Charting:
It intended to make the client and client concerns and
strengths the focus of care.
Three columns for recording are usually used: date
and time, focus, and progress note
Focus may be a condition, nursing diagnosis, a
behavior, or S/S, client strength
The progress notes are organized into:
DAR
D: Data : assessment phase
A: Action: planning and implementation
R: Response: evaluation phase
Summary of focus charting
Date\time Focus progress note
- Condition - Data: S&O data
- Nsg Dx - Action: P&I
- S&S - Response: E
21/10
9:00 pain D: abd. Incision, facial
grimacing. Rates pain at 8 on
scale 0-10
A: administer morphine sulfate 4 mg
IV
R: Rates pain at 1. states welling to
ambulate
V. Charting by Exception (CBE):
Is a documentation system in which only abnormal or
significant findings or exceptions to norms are recorded
1. Flow sheets: as graphic records, fluid balance records, daily
nursing assessment record, skin assessment record
2. Standards of nursing care: eliminates much of the repetitive
charting of routine care. Usually documentation involves only a
check mark in the routine standards box on the graphic record
3. Bedside access to chart form: all flow sheets are kept at the
client’s bed side to allow immediate recording and to eliminate
the need to transcribe data from the nurse’s worksheet to the
permanent record.
Advantage: is the elimination of lengthy, repetitive notes and it
makes client changes in condition more obvious.
Systems flow sheet.
Graphic flow sheet.
Charting by exception.
VI. Computerized Documentation:
Used to store client's database, add data, create
and revise CP, and document client progress
It make care planning and documentation easy
It made transmission of information from one
care setting to another possible.
VII. Case Management:
Uses multidisciplinary approach to planning and
documenting client care, using critical pathway
Identify the outcome that certain groups of client are
expected to achieve on each day of care
It uses critical pathway, graphics and flow sheet
Promote collaboration and teamwork among caregiver,
helps decrease length of stay, make efficient use of time
Work for client with one or two diagnosis and few
needs.
Client with multiple diagnosis difficult to document on
critical pathway.
Documenting Nursing Activities