Credit: Getty Images. Providing nursing students with the opportunity to audit nursing charts in a real-world scenario may change their perspective about the charting process. The entire student audit ...

Good nursing documentation isn’t just paperwork—it’s the backbone of safe, legal, and effective patient care. From electronic health records to legal compliance, mastering charting skills can protect ...

Back in the days when computerized documentation was still a pipe dream and we had callouses from so much writing, nurses often grumbled about charting. Here is a familiar observation: "In spite of ...

Nursing documentation is the backbone of safe, effective patient care, but it can be time-consuming and overwhelming. By embracing best practices, informatics tools, and even AI-powered EHR systems, ...

Cheristi Cognetta-Rieke, DNP, RN, vice chair for nursing at the Mayo Clinic, says nursing documentation is undergoing a "fundamental shift." At the 2026 HIMSS Global Health Conference & Exposition in ...

Whose Chart Is It, Anyway? "The purpose of an EHR should be helping the end users (us) to be more efficient in charting and free up time for direct patient care," observed a Medscape reader. However, ...