RECORD KEEPING IN NIGERIAN PRIMARY SCHOOLS

Standards in medical record keeping.

Medical records serve many functions but their primary purpose is to support patient care. The RCP Health Informatics Unit (HIU) has found variability in the quality of records and discharge summaries in England and Wales. There is currently a major drive to computerise medical records across the NHS, but without improvement in the quality of paper records the full benefits of computerisation a...

Record keeping chart…

Record keeping: developing good practice

THE LAST decade has seen a shift of attitude within the nursing profession towards the importance of record keeping. This change has been brought about predominantly by the promotion of patients’ rights and the empowerment of patients and relatives to be involved in their care, through the Patient’s Charter (DoH 1991). This has now been superseded by Patient Focus and Public Involvement (Scotti...

Assessment in Nigerian Schools: a Counsellor’s Viewpoint

ESERE, O. Mary PhD Lecturer, Faculty of Education, University of Ilorin, P. M. B. 1515, Ilorin, Nigeria e-mail: [email protected] Abstract Assessment is aimed at finding out how much a child has acquired in terms of learning skills but also takes into consideration the personal-social development of the child. In Nigerian schools, assessment, most often than not is concentrated on cognitive...

Record keeping in two types of relationships.

On the basis of a distinction between communal and exchange relationships (Clark & Mills, 1979; Mills & Clark, 1982), the following predictions were made: (a) Members of exchange relationships would keep track of individual inputs into joint tasks and (b) members of communal relationships would not. These hypotheses were tested in three studies. In each study, subjects worked on a task with a p...