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Best Practices in Nursing Documentation: Writing Effective and Legal Proof Notes

 
Understand the compliance challenges in documentation and make medical records as accurate as possible. Long gone are the days that nurses and other health care providers hand-wrote cryptic notes on essay paper-like chart pages that rarely were ever looked at again. Long gone, also, are the days that physicians would only look at labs, reports and other physicians' notes, expecting the nurse to call to the physician’s attention anything important about the patient so they didn’t have to read nurses’ notes. The information documented about a patient will live on and be seen by a multitude of individuals. It has become even more important to document accurately, succinctly, intelligibly and professionally.
This topic will place documentation of patient care in its rightful place, summarize its multiple purposes, describe appropriate documentation, and highlight pitfalls of bad documentation and its consequences. This topic will introduce you to how the legal system uses documentation, techniques to avoid problems and what you might be required to do at some time in the future with respect to your documentation or lack thereof. The standards that are applied to documentation will also be discussed briefly. Last, but not least, you will be able to ask questions and will learn from unfortunate examples of others’ documentation and the consequences of those failures.

Faculty

Diane M. Janulis, J.D., M.S.N., B.S.N.

Diane M. Janulis, J.D., M.S.N., B.S.N.

JurisMedia Group

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Faculty

Diane M. Janulis, J.D., M.S.N., B.S.N.

Diane M. Janulis, J.D., M.S.N., B.S.N.

JurisMedia Group

  • Principal, JurisMedia Group
  • Member, SAMHSA Services, military, veterans and their families' policy academy task force, Alabama
  • Retired counsel at King & Spalding LLP (Atlanta)
  • Practice concentrated on pharmaceutical products liability defense, including expert witnesses and scientific issues
  • Formerly practiced in areas of medical malpractice defense, health care risk management and health care law
  • Conducted more than 300 seminars on medical and legal issues both in the U.S. and internationally
  • Wrote several articles, chapters and a text on medical professional liability issues, documentation and medical records
  • Member of the American Health Lawyers Association, the American Bar Association, Sigma Theta Tau and numerous other professional societies and associations
  • Practiced nursing for 13 years prior to entering law school
  • Testified as expert witness regarding nursing documentation
  • J.D. degree, University of Maryland; M.S.N degree, University of Pennsylvania; B.S.N. degree, Georgetown University
  • Can be contacted at 770-689-9186 or [email protected]

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