Emergency nurse practitioner’s documentation: development of an audit tool
Mark Cooper Researcher-Practitioner, A&E Department, Glasgow Royal Infirmary, North Glasgow University Hospitals NHS Trust
Sue Kinn Project Leader, Nursing Research Initiative for Scotland, Glasgow Caledonian University
Tracy Ibbotson Senior Lecturer, Nursing and Midwifery School, University of Glasgow
Grace Lindsay Lecturer, Nursing and Midwifery School, University of Glasgow
Ian Swann A&E Consultant, Glasgow Royal Infirmary
The quality of clinical documentation was examined during a randomised controlled trial of emergency nurse practitioner (ENP) led care (Cooper et al 1999). In order to measure the quality of ENPs and A&E senior house officers (SHOs) documentation, a reliable and valid tool had to be developed. This paper describes the use o of a consensus methodology, the modified nomig nal group technique, to develop a documentation audit tool (DAT) to assess the quality of clinical documentation.
Emergency Nurse.
8, 5, 34-39.
doi: 10.7748/en2000.09.8.5.34.c1333
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