Practical Nursing

• NSCN - Documentation Guidelines for Nurses

  We developed the Documentation Guidelines for Nurses to help LPNs, RNs, and NPs meet their standards of practice related to documentation. Nursing documentation is a vital component of safe, ethical, and effective nursing practice. This document describes nurses’ accountability and the expectations for documentation in all practice settings, regardless of the documentation method or storage.
• Documentation Guide for Nurses

  Created by the Nova Scotia College of Nursing
• Documentation Guidelines for Nurses Online Education Module

  Our Documentation Online Education is designed to help you better understand our Documentation Guidelines for Nurses. Nursing documentation is a vital component of safe, ethical and effective nursing practice, regardless of the context of practice. Nursing documentation is required to be compliant with standards of practice and other legal requirements. This module is a resource to help you to meet your accountabilities related to nursing documentation.

• Nursing Documentation Made Incredibly Easy!

  Publication Date: 2018

  Packed with colorful images and clear-as-day guidance, this friendly reference guides you through meeting documentation requirements, working with electronic medical records systems, complying with legal requirements, following care planning guidelines, and more.

• Communicating with patients

  Patient education allows patients to play a bigger role in their own care. It also aligns with patient- and family-centered care. To be effective, patient education needs to be more than instructions and information. Teachers and health care providers need to be able to assess patient needs and communicate clearly.
• Nursing Fundamentals - 2.3 Communicating with Patients

  Therapeutic communication is a type of professional communication used by nurses with patients and defined as, “The purposeful, interpersonal information-transmitting process through words and behaviors based on both parties’ knowledge, attitudes, and skills, which leads to patient understanding and participation."
• Patient-centred communication

  Patient-centred communication means engaging with patients so as to create a mutual understanding about how the physician’s thoughts and the proposed care meet the patient’s expectations, interests and needs from their individual perspectives.
• Patient-Centered Communication: Basic Skills

  Hashim, M.J. (2017). Patient-Centered Communication: Basic Skills. American Family Physician, 95(1):29-34.

• Cultural Competence in the Care of LGBTQ Patients

  Bass, B., & Nagy, H. (October 3, 2022). Cultural Competence in the Care of LGBTQ Patients. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK563176/
• LGBTQIA2S+ Key Terms & Definitions for Nurses & Healthcare Providers

  Nurses can use this glossary of terms to help improve their ability to communicate with LGBTQIA2S+ patients and their families. Excellent nursing care requires practitioners to learn about their patients, so while knowing terms does not guarantee excellence, it can help build toward that.
• RNAO - LGBTQ Cultural Competence for Nurses

  RNAO. (n.d.). LGBTQ Cultural Competence for Nurses.