Effective record-keeping is essential to health care. This book is a handy pocket-sized guide to keeping good health records that treats the process as an integral part of your everyday practice.Every healthcare practitioner is expected to record their interactions with a patient in the patient s health record, and this pocket guide is full of practical detail about:what a health record is and what its purpose ishow health records are managedwho has access to health recordsthe importance of maintaining a patient’s health recordbest practice in keeping records Written by an experienced lecturer with input provided by current nursing students, this guidance is produced with you in mind and you can carry it with you at all times!