Essay Assignment: EFFECTIVE RECORDING AND REPORTING
Length: 1500 words.
View the use of Technology in Reporting and Recording service user care and demonstrate how to keep and maintain records in own care setting in line with National and Local policies:
RESIDENTIAL SETTING WITH CHILDREN AND ADULTS WITH LEARNING DIFFICULTIES. AGES RANGE FROM 10 YEARS OLD TO 60 YEARS OLD. ALL SERVICE USERS FROM DIFFERENT BACKGOUNDS AND HAVE DIFFERING MEDICAL NEEDS .
1: Review the use of technology in reporting and recording service user care in a care setting.
1. Describe how technology is used in recording and reporting in own care setting.
2. Explain the benefits of involving service users in record keeping processes.
3. Review the use of digital technology in relation to own medical management procedures or care plan.
2: Demonstrate how to keep and maintain records in own care setting
1. Produce accurate, legible, concise and coherent records regarding service user care for different service users following own setting's guidelines
2. Explain different aspects of own management of service user records with reference to compliance with national and local policies and guidelines
3. Analyse the process of maintaining records in own setting, identifying any potential or actual difficulties.
TASK:
View the use of Technology in Reporting and Recording service user care and demonstrate how to keep and maintain records in own care setting in line with National and Local policies:
For this task you are expected to:
Write an essay covering the following:
• Describe how technology is used in recording and reporting in own care setting (e.g. digital working - care plan application on smart phones, use of tablets to record, virtual consultations. Data breach. Involving services users in the process: principles of co-production and co-management, empowering care choice, access to information; National Institute for Care and Excellence (NICE) guidance).
? Explain the benefits of involving service users in record keeping processes (e.g. flexibility of access; improved communication and information sharing, resource savings, efficiency, currency of information. Barriers to digital working; cost, training implications, software updates, staff and service user apathy or lack of skills, ethical issues).
? Produce accurate, legible, concise and coherent records regarding service user care for different service users following own setting's guidelines (e.g. features of effective records: up to date, complete, accurate, timely, clear and concise. Typical types of records completed in care practice: timesheets and rotas, minutes of meetings, recording nutritional status, recording progress or change....)
? Explain different aspects of own management of service user records with reference to compliance with national and local policies and guidelines (e.g. using sound numeracy skills: in day-to-day administration and management of records, recording information regarding nutrition and fluid balance, monitoring routine activity...)
• Evaluate the effectiveness of the use of technology in terms of meeting service user needs, ensuring appropriate care is given and maintaining confidentiality Evaluate the effectiveness of own completion of documentation in term of meeting service user needs, ensuring appropriate care is given and effective reporting is carried out.
Format your assignment according to the following formatting requirements:
1. The answer should be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides.
2. The response also includes a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student's name, the course title, and the date. The cover page is not included in the required page length.
3. Also include a reference page. The Citations and references should follow APA format. The reference page is not included in the required page length.