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Level 3 Foundation Diploma in Health and Social Care

Standards of Effective Record Keeping

HSC306 · Effective Handling of Information in Health and Social Care Settings — Week 7 of 16

CourseHSC306
Week7 of 16
SemesterII
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This week’s topics

Standards of Effective Record Keeping

  1. Importance of contemporaneity and timeliness
  2. Ensuring completeness and factual accuracy
  3. Maintaining legibility and clear signatures
  4. Legal ramifications of poor record keeping
  5. Nursing Documentation

What you will be able to do

  • 2.3 Explain the importance of maintaining records that are up to date, complete, accurate and legible.

Activity

Start with this week’s video, then: Seminar, guided reading and a short written task: explain the importance of maintaining records that are up to date, complete, accurate and legible.

Study materials

Videos

  • Nursing Documentation · YouTube · Nursing Bytes · 3 min · for registered students
  • Nursing Documentation: Fundamentals of Nursing Principles |@LevelUpRN · YouTube · Level Up RN · 6 min · for registered students

Further resources

  • CQC: Regulations for service providers and managers · Reading · Other, guidance · for registered students
  • Reporting accidents and incidents at work: a brief guide to RIDDOR (HSE, INDG453) · PDF · GOV.UK, guidance · for registered students
  • CQC: Assessment framework (quality statements) · Reading · Other, guidance · for registered students
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Week 6Midterm
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Course plan
  • Week 1: Legislation Governing Information Handling
  • Week 2: Legal Requirements and Professional Codes
  • Week 3: Foundations of Confidentiality
  • Week 4: Confidentiality in Daily Communications
  • Week 5: Confidentiality vs Information Sharing Tensions
  • Week 6: Managing Disclosure Dilemmas
  • Week 7: Standards of Effective Record Keeping
  • Midterm: Midterm evaluation
  • Week 9: Maintaining Manual and Digital Storage Systems
  • Week 10: Operational Security and Access Controls
  • Week 11: Information Governance and Quality Monitoring
  • Week 12: Applying Effective Handling of Information in Health and So…
  • Week 13: Assignment workshop: research, planning and referencing
  • Week 14: Assignment workshop: drafting, feedback and improvement
  • Week 15: Review and coursework completion
  • Final: Final assessment and submission
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