Purpose: Nursing documentation is essential in ensuring communication between team members,\ncontinuity of care and evidence based practice. The purpose of this paper is to review and synthesise\nresearch pertaining to nursing documentation in specialist palliative care.\nMethod: An Integrative review (IR) utilising Whittemore and Knafiââ?¬â?¢s five stage process was employed.\nElectronic searches of: Scopus, Medline, Cinahl, Web of Science, Academic Search Complete databases\n(2010-2017) were conducted. 10,842 articles were retrieved which were reduced to five articles for review.\nData extraction, quality assessment (Critical Appraisal Skills Programmes ââ?¬â?? CASP) and thematic analysis\nwere conducted on the included articles.\nResults: Two overarching themes emerged in this review, symptom management and engagement.\nSymptom management focused on documentation of symptoms while engagement highlighted emotional\ncare, information giving, providing support, coordinating care, supporting families and education.\nConclusions: Clear, accurate, and complete documentation is crucial to the delivery of quality health care\nand pivotal to effective communication within the team. Although this is important in all aspects of care it\nis arguably even more so in end of life care. In order to audit the care provided, such care must be clearly\nidentified and documented.
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