Effective record-keeping is essential to health care. This book is a handy pocket-sized guide to keeping good health records that treats the process as an integral part of your everyday practice. Every healthcare practitioner is expected to record their interactions with a patient in the patient's health record, and this pocket guide is full of practical detail about: what a health record is and what its purpose is how health records are managed who has access to health records the importance of maintaining a patient's health record best practice in keeping records Written by an experienced lecturer with input provided by current nursing students, this guidance is produced with you in mind - and you can carry it with you at all times!