The documentation in the health record of information relating to patient rights and the patient’s understanding of those rights is required for both healthcare decision making and use of the record in legal situations, how that is information is captured or documented must be guided by organization-wide policy. For this portion of the policy manual you are to compare and contrast the patient’s right’s policy from Creighton University and UTMB, provide in the Module 01 Benchmarking Resources. After your analysis of both policies, you are to select the information that you recommend for your policy and write your policy on the documentation of information relating to patient rights. UTMB Policy Manual

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The completed typed policy should be 1 page. If you use a source for the policy, state the source at the end of the policy under a heading titled references.