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| a report given to nurses on the next shift |
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| a formal, legal document that provides evidence of a client's care |
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| Charting by Exception (CBE) |
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| a documentation system in which only significant findings or exceptions to norms are recorded |
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| an informal oral consideration of a subject by two or more health care personnel to identify a problem or establish strategies to resolve a problem |
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| the process of making an entry on a client record; charting, recording |
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| a record of the proggress of specific or specialized data such as vital signs, fluid balance, or routine medications; often charted in graph form |
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| a method of charting that uses key words or foci to describe what is happening to the client |
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| the trade name for a method that makes use of a series of cards to concisely organize and record client data and instructions for daily nursing care - especially care that changes frequently and must be kept up to date |
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| a descriptive record of client data and nursing interventions, written in sentences and paragraphs |
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| an acronym for a charting model that follows a recording sequence of problems, interventions, and evaluation of the effectiveness of the interventions |
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| Problem-oriented Medical Record (POMR) |
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| data about the client are recorded and arranged according to the client's problems, rather than according to the source of the information |
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| Problem-oriented Record (POR) |
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| SEE Problem-oriented Medical Record |
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| chart entries made by a variety of methods and by all health professionals involved in a client's care for the purpose of describing a client's problems, treatments, and progress toward desired outcomes |
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| a written communication providing formal, legal documentation of a client's progress |
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| the process of making written entries about a client on the medical record |
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| whether oral or written,it should be concise, including pertinent information but no extraneous detail |
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| an acronym for a charting method that follows a recording sequence of subjective data, objective data, assessment, and planning |
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| a record in which each person or department makes notations in a seperate section or sections of the client's chart |
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| a variation or deviation from a critical pathway; goals not met or interventions not performed according to the time frame |
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