What is it about?
Using research based tools in the assessment of the clinical needs of individual with a stoma to better document and rationalise care needed. By doing this stoma nurses can ensure that their care is research based and working within the recommendations of their governing body.
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Why is it important?
Timely, accurate and appropriate documentation is a legal and ethical requirement in nursing documentation. By using validated assessment tools nurses are able to better fulfil these legal requirements and improve patient care
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This article is by no means designed to remove the expert clinical nurse specialist, on the contrary it is designed to support and validate their clinical decision making.
Paul Russell-Roberts
Coloplast A/S
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This page is a summary of: Documenting specialist nursing practice: data need not be daunting, Gastrointestinal Nursing, April 2020, Mark Allen Group,
DOI: 10.12968/gasn.2020.18.3.14.
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