Clinical protocols herald new era of nursing documentation.
Documenting care tends to be a time-consuming process and information is often replicated. This paper describes how documentation was changed in one acute hospital trust to reflect UKCC guidelines and for use by all disciplines. Evaluation suggests that less time is spent writing records and that those records are more complete.
Haigh
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Central Middlesex Hospital NHS Trust, London.
O'Connell
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Edwards
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D000368:Aged; D015400:Clinical Nursing Research; D005851:Geriatric Nursing; D017408:Guidelines as Topic; D006801:Humans; D016294:Models, Nursing; D009736:Nursing Process; D009737:Nursing Records / Q000592:standards*