title: Creating a paperless documentation system for nursing continuing education activities.
abstract: This article describes the process used to convert the required communication, documentation, and peer review process required by the Ohio State Board of Nursing, as well as program evaluation documents, to a completely online "live document" system. Creation of the documentation and review system was accomplished with custom Microsoft Word templates created with Visual Basic for Applications. All templates were created according to nursing continuing education specifications by a constituent member association-approved provider unit within the American Nurses Credentialing Center Accreditation system. Examples of the templates, program review process, and documentation system are included.
authors.affiliation: Department of Nursing and Patient Education, The Ohio State University Medical Center, 660 Ackerman Road, Columbus, OH 43218, USA.
authors.forename: Paula
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Garvey
mesh_terms: D003142:Communication; D004282:Documentation / Q000379:methods*; D004509:Education, Nursing, Continuing; D004521:Educational Measurement; D006801:Humans; D009820:Ohio; D010380:Peer Review; D015397:Program Evaluation; D012984:Software; D014584:User-Computer Interface