Show notes
Nursing students need to develop strong documentation skills. In this podcast and article, Lacy Hester describes an interactive classroom activity she developed that immerses students in a realistic legal scenario where they need to defend their own clinical documentation. Using de-identified notes from students' previous simulations, skills labs, and patient care assignments, students critically review the notes and rewrite entries using correct terminology and format. Students learn to justify their documentation choices and consider the legal implications of their wording.

