Nursing standard (Royal College of Nursing (Great Britain) : 1987)
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Nurses hoping to follow in the footsteps of award-winning nurse novelist Nathan Filer can enrol on a new creative writing course for healthcare workers.
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This article considers best practice in record-keeping and documentation in the light of recent public inquiries and reports, renewed national interest in record-keeping standards, and the challenge of moving from paper to electronic healthcare documentation and digital storage of data. The nature of the nurse-patient relationship is also changing, and should be reflected in nurses' record-keeping practices. Collaborative approaches to the planning and evaluation of care, and more emphasis on patients having a greater sense of ownership of information held about them should be reflected in nurses' and other healthcare professionals' attitudes and approaches to this aspect of practice.
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The nurse who blew the whistle on poor care at Stafford Hospital collected her OBE last week.