Abstract

Documentation is an elemental to nursing as wound care and vital sign assessment. This article examines the reasons and techniques for accurate and complete documentation in a medical record. Several examples of nursing malpractice involving improper documentation are described. Abbreviations, flow sheets, incident reports, late entries, errors and content are included in the discussion presented.

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