Assistance with Self Administration of medication
This a Continued Education Course for Medical Professionals.
The terms medical record, health record, and medical chart are used somewhat interchangeably to describe the systematic documentation of a single patient’s medical history and care across time within one particular health care provider’s jurisdiction.[1] The medical record includes a variety of types of “notes” entered over time by health care professionals, recording observations and administration of drugs and therapies, orders for the administration of drugs and therapies, test results, x-rays, reports, etc. The maintenance of complete and accurate medical records is a requirement of health care providers and is generally enforced as a licensing or certification prerequisite.
The terms are used for both the physical folder that exists for each individual patient and for the body of information found therein.
Medical records have traditionally been compiled and maintained by health care providers, but advances in online data storage have led to the development of personal health records (PHR) that are maintained by patients themselves, often on third-party websites.[2] This concept is supported by US national health administration entities[3] and by AHIMA, the American Health Information Management Association.
A medical record folder being pulled from the records
Because many consider the information in medical records to be sensitive personal information covered by expectations of privacy, many ethical and legal issues are implicated in their maintenance, such as third-party access and appropriate storage and disposal.[5] Although the storage equipment for medical records generally is the property of the health care provider, the actual record is considered in most jurisdictions to be the property of the patient, who may obtain copies upon request.
Course Features
- Lectures 12
- Quizzes 1
- Duration 6.0 Hour
- Skill level All level
- Language English
- Certificate Yes
- Assessments Self
Introduction
Documentation is a type of communication that gives details about the healthcare shopper and confirms that care was supplied. Correct, goal, and full documentation of shopper care is required by each accreditation and reimbursement companies, together with federal and state governments. Functions of documentation embrace:
- Finishing up skilled duty.
- Establishing accountability.
- Speaking amongst well being professionals.
- Educating employees.
- Offering data for analysis.
- Satisfying authorized and follow requirements.
- Making certain reimbursement.
Whereas documentation focuses on progress notes, there are lots of different elements to charting. Physician’s orders have to be famous, med documented on remedy sheets, and important indicators have to be graphed. Move sheets should
be checked off, crammed out, or initialed. Admission assessments might contain primarily checklists or might require in depth documentation. There may be little or no consistency from
one healthcare establishment to a different. This poses an actual problem for nurses, particularly since it’s more and more widespread for nurses to work part-time in multiple healthcare facility as hospitals use momentary nursing companies to fill positions. Understanding the essential codecs for documentation and efficient documentation methods is important.
With the motion towards high quality healthcare and course of enchancment, nurses could also be concerned in evaluating documentation and making choices about the kind of documentation that will probably be utilized. Correct documentation requires an understanding of nursing diagnoses and the nursing course of.
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Medical Record Documentation and Legal Aspects
- Lecture 1.1 Introduction Preview
- Lecture 1.2 Nursing diagnoses, interventions, and outcomes Locked
- Lecture 1.3 Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA Locked
- Lecture 1.4 Charting guidelines Locked
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Types of documentation
- Lecture 2.1 Flow sheets Locked
- Lecture 2.2 Narrative Locked
- Lecture 2.3 Source-oriented Locked
- Lecture 2.4 Problem-oriented (SOAP) Locked
- Lecture 2.5 Focus (DAR) Locked
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Critical pathways
- Lecture 3.1 Critical pathways Locked
- Lecture 3.2 Computerized Locked
- Lecture 3.3 Summary Locked
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Quiz
- Quiz 4.1 Medical Record Documentation and Legal Aspects Locked
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The quiz is not a requirement for this course. You only need to mark all sections complete. Then click on profile, scroll down you will see where it completed courses, there's a link there that said your certificate, click on it and print your certificate. Or in in your transcript, in your profile, you can print your certificate there also.
