A national programme is underway to transform the documentation nurses are required to complete. The Nursing Informatics leads in NHS Wales are coordinating a standardisation of nursing documents whilst Digital Health and Care Wales (DHCW) is working with clinical colleagues to produce digital nursing documents that follow a patient through their healthcare journey. The same standardised nursing language is being used to reduce duplication, to improve patient experience and outcomes of care.
Clinical representatives from every health board and trust in Wales are leading the standardisation and digitisation of nursing documents to ensure they are fit for purpose, patient focused and align to nursing process.
The following documents have now been developed and standardised and officially approved through the governance process for use across the NHS in Wales:
If there is anyone looking to develop a new document / standard nationally please refer to the SOP - National Information Data Standardisation.