Reporting, Record Keeping and Information Governance

Overview

Reporting and recording skills are an essential part of worker competence. You need to be able to update documents, ensure confidentiality is maintained, and information is stored appropriately & safely clearly and accurately.

This Recording and Record Keeping training course aims to develop on the skills & confidence of the learners in structuring, writing, and evaluating forms of communication so others can understand them.

This course will explore the skills involved in effective defensible documentation in multiple working environments.

Details

What will I learn on this course?

At the end of this training, you will be able to:

• Problems facing providers and their staff when it comes to providing evidenced care and support
• The role and purpose of basic recording and report writing as a means of communication
• How to record information in a way that is manageable and makes sense to others
• Assessing the elements involved in structuring, writing and evaluating records and reports
• To support staff to maintain service user records to the standards required by
• The Data Protection Act and related legislation and guidelines
• Understanding what needs to be recorded and why
• The blame & tick box cultures inherent in health and social care
• Mistrust of what happens to the information that is recorded
• Providing appropriate systems to facilitate good defensible documentation (recording and report writing)

Certification

Successful candidates will receive certification of achievement.