Documentation & the Nursing Process: A Review

This handbook offers a thorough overview of nursing documentation, and its importance, within the context of the nursing process. Users learn the principles of effective documentation and methods of documenting and examine trends relevant to this aspect of nursing care. Example forms are included to provide readers with hands-on experience with the documentation format.

Booknews

This reference handbook provides principles and practical examples of correct documentation for students and professional nurses in a clinical setting. Documentation is discussed alongside the nursing process, and current methods of charting are reviewed, including electronic documentation and charting by expectation. Learning features include objectives, key terms, community/home health care boxes, review and critical thinking questions, Internet exercises, and a case study. White serves on the Vocational Nursing Financial Aid Advisory Committee for the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Lois Elain Wacker White earned a diploma in nursing from Memorial Hospital School of Nursing, Springfield, Illinois; an Associate degree in Science from Del Mar College, Corpus Christi, Texas; a Bachelor of Science in Nursing from Texas A & I University—Corpus Christi, Corpus Christi, Texas; a Master of Science in Education from Corpus Christi State University, Corpus Christi, Texas; and a Doctor of Philosophy degree in education administration—community college from the University of Texas, Austin, Texas. She has taught at Del Mar college, Corpus Christi, Texas, in both the Associate Degree Nursing program and the Vocational Nursing program. For 14 years she was also chairperson of the Department of Vocational Nurse Education. Dr. White has taught fundamentals of nursing, mental health/mental illness, medical-surgical nursing, and maternal/newborn nursing. Her professional career has also included 15 years of clinical practice. Dr. White has served on the Nursing Education Advisory Committee of the Board of Nurse Examiners for the State of Texas and the Board of Vocational Nurse Examiners, which developed competencies expected of graduates for each level of nursing. She maintains membership in the Texas Association of Vocational Nurse Educators, Sigma Theta Tau, American Nurses Association, and the National League for Nursing.