Setting the Record Straight

Setting the Record Straight

 

Available for organisations to book only, this update is currently online training using MS Teams.  All participants will receive training materials and certificates of attendance, sent by email.

 

 

The Course Aim 
To update participants in legal and professional aspects of documentation to improve safe practice and minimise risk of litigation

 

Learning outcomes 

By the end of the session participants will be able to:
• Outline the legal and professional requirements of record keeping in healthcare practice.
• Describe the consequences of poor record keeping for a practitioners professional accountability and patient safety
• Judge the standards required for writing records that are Factual, Consistent, Accurate, Contemporaneous and Shared

 

Course content 

The workshop will utilise the FACTS model of record keeping developed by Richard Griffith at Swansea University to ensure that records are:

  • Factual
  • Accurate
  • Consistent
  • Timely and
  • Shared

In order to meet policy, professional and legal standards for recordkeeping in healthcare, the training will use a combination of workshops, discussion and role-play where participants will evaluate records for:

  • Professionalism and record
  • Duty to secure records
  • Confidentiality and records
  • Content and style
  • Patient identification and personal information
  • Author identification
  • Point in time
  • Indelible entries
  • Abbreviations
  • Errors how to correct them and what to omit
  • Legal issues
  • Records as evidence
  • Common errors in electronic records
  • Making sense of record entries
  • The need for clear English

 

Trainer 

Our trainer Richard Griffith, is head of healthcare law at the Department of Philosophy, History and Law, Swansea University.  Initially training as a nurse he gained his diploma in nursing and bachelor of nursing before turning his attention to the law.  Richard has a wide legal background having gained a post graduate diploma in law at the University of Glamorgan together with the common professional examination of the Law Society.  He then went on to read for a master of law at Cardiff Law School.  Richard has acquired a reputation at nmprescribing for the engaging and amusing way he delivers training.

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