Lecture 2 Documentation Flashcards

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Documentation

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  • Detailed account of quality of care
  • Communicate pt info accurately and timely effective manner
  • Didn’t chart it, didn’t happen
  • Record = Chart
  • Confidentiality
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Confidentiality

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Legal and Ethical obligations

Protect info:

  • Don’t leave it in a public area
  • Sign off the computer
  • Don’t be yapping around
  • Don’t leave anything that has your patient’s info
  • Don’t email client info
  • Shred all the proper information don’t take anything home
  • Don’t speak to anyone over the phone
  • Don’t post anything on social media

Health information privacy act (HIPA)- provincial legislation

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Health information privacy act (HIPA)

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-Came about in 1997
-Proclaimed in court in 2003
-Protecting the privacy of your health information
•States the rights of individuals and obligations of workers in a health system remains confidential

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Purpose of a Health Record (chart):

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More then just communication and care planning

  • Legal Document
  • Education (using data for audits)
  • Funding and Resource Management
  • Research
  • Quality Review
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Health Records contain the following:

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o	Patient demographics
o	Admission nursing database
o	Nursing care plans
o	Nursing notes
o	Medical history
o	Medical diagnosis
o	Orders
o	Progress notes
o	Test reports
o	Operative notes
o	Discharge plan and summary
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Types of Records

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Source orientated Record

Problem Orientated

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Source Orientated Record

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  • Organised under separate disciplines
  • Each discipline has section
  • Not chronological
  • Must go to different sources to read same topic
  • Repetitive
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Problem Orientated

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  • data organized by pt problems
  • medically based format
  • Health Care members contribute to a single list of identified pt problems:
  • chronically ill pt
  • Pt with many problems
  • All members take care of same problem
  • Comprehensive individualized care
  • Issue: Multiple problems with the same symptoms
  • Problem focused
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Ways to document nursing care

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  • Narrative (source)
  • SOAP (problem)
  • PIE (problem)
  • Focus Charting (problem)
  • Chart by exception (problem)
  • Case management
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Narrative (source)

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  • Story
  • time consuming
  • Lots of info
  • What is relevant
  • Client Reponses
  • Oriented = Person place and time
  • See Mar = see medication record
  • O/M = Observation and measurement
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SOAP (problem)

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Subjective (pt remarks)

Objective (vital signs)

Assessment (nursing diagnosis)

Plan (resolution)

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SOAPIER (problem)

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Subjective
Objective
Assessment
Plan
Intervention
Revision
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PIE

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Problem (diagnosis)
Intervention
Evaluation

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Focus Charting (problem)

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Based on pt Concerns

Uses DAR:
Data
action
Response

Pt Centered
Used for narrative
Flow chart

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Chart by exception (problem)

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Document deviations from the normal (saves time)

CBE

Based on set standards that have been met

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Case management

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Critical pathway = care maps

Multidisciplinary

Efficient

Computerized

Tailored to specific disease

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Admission Database

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Complete initial nursing assessment of pt on admission

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Standardized Care plan:

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Standardized form with some individualization

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Kardex (temp record)

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Basic pt care summary

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Flowsheets and graphic records:

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Records for quick data entry

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Discharge Summary:

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Includes discharge info and instructions

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Incident Reports

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Involved in or witness
near miss
no blame 
-med errors
-incidents
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What do we document:

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  • Care that you have provided
  • Patient status (vital signs)
  • Changes in patient status
  • Medication administration
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Documentation guidelines

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•	Date and time (24-hour clock)
•	Be timely
•	Use logical order
•	Meet set standards 
•	Write legibly in blue or black ink
•	Use accepted Abbreviations/symbols
•	Spelling and grammar
•	Sign all entries
o	Name and title: S. Akinfiresoye, UofS NS
•	Stick to the facts
o	Descriptive and objective
•	Be current and organized
o	Timely and well laid out
•	Be compliant with standards
o	Documenting what is done
•	Be accurate, specific, complete
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DO NOT:

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• Never erase or use whiteout
• Janet IV was displaced after her shower is in situ.
Error O, Akinfiresoye NS Sept 13/18
• Never leave blank spaces in your notes
• Only chart your own actions – if you did not give the med you do not sign off on it
• DO not “prechart”
• Begin with date and time, end with signature and role (ie O. Akinfiresoye, UofS, NS)