what is most important treatment or note keeping?

[gcoe]

Hi Katie

I am not from the UK so I don't really understand the context of the question. However to me it seems extremely bizzare.

Note keeping may improve a record of practice, it may help one remember important details, provide transparency of practice to colleaugues leaders and outside authorities and also for patients should they request them. There are medicolegal requirements of note taking.Over many decades notetaking has taken on an increasing importance

However the reason I find the question bizarre is if you don't treat the patient, more importantly if you don't treat the patient well. then what on earth have you achieved?

Whether you believe in God, the great spaghetti monster in the sky, in your self or in the great NHS that created physios, were physios created to write notes?

Very strange question.

If you were working on an island devastated by a tsunami, where there was no record system, no pen or paper and definitely no laptops, PDAs or I phones, and you had people who desperately needed your care would you halt all treatment until you were able to take notes?

[Fyzzio]

If you were working on an island devastated by a tsunami, where there was no record system, no pen or paper and definitely no laptops, PDAs or I phones, and you had people who desperately needed your care would you halt all treatment until you were able to take notes?

No, certainly not.

But have you ever been the subject in an enquiry in regards to a patient complaint about you? Bet, you wish you would have done less treatment and better/ more note taking.

Treatment and note taking are two completely different aspects of our job and, as gcoe said both have legal and ethical requirements attached. You cannot compare them or say that one is more important as the other.

I believe that the purpose of the question is to check your awareness of the need for documentation, patient rights and risk of ethical breaches.

Good luck,
Fyzzio