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Complete guide to documentation, 2d ed.


9781582555560

Complete guide to documentation, 2d ed.

Lippincott Williams & Wilkins Wil·kins , Maurice Hugh Frederick 1916-2004.

British biophysicist. He shared a 1962 Nobel Prize for his contributions to the determination of the structure of DNA.
 

2008

438 pages

$49.95

Paperback

RT50

The clinical settings and specialties may vary, but the need for accurate and consistent documentation that meets standards for use remains the same. Written primarily for nurses, this book gives students and practitioners practical advice and plenty of practice in nursing documentation and medical records. Along with most obvious reason for excellent documentation, that being better care of patients, this also gives the legal, ethical, performance and reimbursement Reimbursement

Payment made to someone for out-of-pocket expenses has incurred.
 implications of documentation, the types of documentation systems currently in use, and documentation in care settings such as acute, long-term Long-term

Three or more years. In the context of accounting, more than 1 year.


long-term

1. Of or relating to a gain or loss in the value of a security that has been held over a specific length of time. Compare short-term.
, home health and ambulatory Movable; revocable; subject to change; capable of alteration.

An ambulatory court was the former name of the Court of King's Bench in England. It would convene wherever the king who presided over it could be found, moving its location as the king moved.
 practice. It also gives documentation methods particular to certain specialties and legally perilous charting practices. The array of sample formats and completed examples is extensive, and the authors include relevant standards and lists of outcomes and interventions for common nursing diagnoses.

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