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Carrie Nicholson1, Kathleen Johnson2
1Assistant Manager of Health Services, Seattle Public Schools, Seattle, WA.
Abstract:
School nurses may be underestimating the power of their documentation to advance the visibility of their work and the needs of the students they serve. The first step toward unlocking the value of their documentation is recognizing the role that quality documentation plays in advancing these goals. The purpose of this article is to demonstrate the utility of the nursing process for improving the quality of documentation and provide examples of how to use nursing documentation formats.
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