Not only does proper record keeping make a positive contribution to quality care provision, it prevents errors and provides evidencing where needed.

Increasing demands for more paperwork and better standards of written communication requires health and social care providers to teach their personnel how to make a record in the correct manner and how records are to be effectively and properly used and managed.

This course will genuinely benefit your record keeping by training people what to do and how to do it. Importantly, in a way that helps them understand why record keeping matters so that they are encouraged to put what they learn into practice.

Course Content

1. The principles of good record keeping
2. Knowing the use of records
3. Making sure information is understandable
4. Ensuring relevance
5. Being clear and concise
6. Facts
7. Checking
8. Accountability
9. The worker’s role in record keeping
10. Using records appropriately
11. Working with reading/writing difficulties
12. Developing good record keeping habits
13. Making sure records are useful
14. Legal requirements of records
15. Access to records
16. Confidentiality
17. Different levels of recording
18. Care plans
19. Using black ink and why
20. When to use red ink
21. Open and closed records
22. Dealing with mistakes correctly
23. Proper recording styles