You probably address legal concepts when talking about documentation, medication administration, and delegation. But most orientation programs do not allot specific time to legal issues in general as ...

Conviction rates for Intimate Partner Violence criminal cases are directly correlated to the existence and adequacy of corroborating medical documentation. A recent Department of Justice Study found ...

Back in the days when computerized documentation was still a pipe dream and we had callouses from so much writing, nurses often grumbled about charting. Here is a familiar observation: "In spite of ...

Medscape's Legal and Professional Issues for Nurses allows readers to seek general information from Carolyn Buppert, MSN, JD about legal or professional nursing issues, including advanced practice ...

Cheristi Cognetta-Rieke, DNP, RN, vice chair for nursing at the Mayo Clinic, says nursing documentation is undergoing a "fundamental shift." At the 2026 HIMSS Global Health Conference & Exposition in ...

Maintaining high quality clinical documentation is essential for a number of reasons, including improved patient safety and better adherence to accreditation standards. Marie Boyd, administrator at ...

You open the file and freeze. Thousands of pages of charts, lab results, and scribbled notes stare back. Half the abbreviations look like a foreign language. Your client is counting on you to find the ...