Instructor: Michelle Lewis

This training will provide participants with an excellent foundational knowledge of documentation and case note reporting, specific to the helping and health care professions.  Covering the guiding principles of the Personal Health and Privacy Act (PHIPA), legal and ethical boundaries and responsibilities that govern documentation within Ontario.  Concepts such as subjective vs. objective writing, will be covered in this training as well.  Participants will have opportunities to view and sample a selection of case note writing styles and come away with writing tools to support them beyond this training.

Learning Objectives:

• Achieve a basic understanding of PHIPA and other legal guiding principles
• Review basic guidelines for documentation and record-keeping.
• Examine, in general, legal and ethical issues in documentation.
• Evaluate writing samples for accurate, complete, non-biased content.