Overview
The goal of this course is to teach nurses in the acute care setting to understand the fundamentals of nurse documentation.Goals and Learning Outcomes
This course will teach nurses all they need to know about the fundamentals of documentation. Documentation is the chief method of communication for all care provided to a patient during a stay at the hospital. High-quality documentation should reflect the excellence of care given to the patient. The concept of nurse documentation is simple, but it takes time and practice to develop the skill of documenting well. This course reviews the fundamentals of nursing documentation and how to include all significant nursing care into the patient’s health care record efficiently.
- Recall what nurse documentation is and what purpose it serves.
- Determine what data should be documented and in what format.
- Recognize the relationship between the nursing process and documentation.
Course Details
Course Originally Released on : 4/1/2023
Course Expiration Date : 12/31/2025
REL-ACU-0-NDF
Accreditations
NURSES
In support of improving patient care, Relias LLC is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.
Provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, CEP#13791


Relias LLC reports to CEBroker for the following boards (Provider # 50-1489): Arkansas State Board Of Nursing, District Of Columbia Board Of Nursing, Florida Board Of Nursing, Georgia Board Of Nursing, Kansas State Board of Nursing, Kentucky Board of Nursing, Michigan Board of Nursing, Mississippi Board of Nursing, New Hampshire Board of Nursing, New Mexico Board Of Nursing, North Dakota Board of Nursing, South Carolina Board Of Nursing and West Virginia Board Of Registered Nurses
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Disclosures
None of the planners/faculty, unless otherwise noted, for this educational activity have relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose with ineligible companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.
