Fundamentals Series

The Fundamentals of Good Documentation Practice

In this course, learners will explore the foundations of Good Documentation Practices (GDocP), focusing on why documents need to be authentic, accurate, specific, contemporaneous, traceable, and enduring. Examples of methods used to support GDocP are given throughout..

CEU Credits: 0.1
Course Code: ELM-220
Duration: 15 mins
Skill Level: Basic
Language: Chinese (Simplified), English, French (France), German, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, Spanish (Spain)
Final Exam: Yes
Certification: Yes
Version: V4.1
Effective Date: 02/14/2024

Curriculum for this course

Course Introduction
What are Good Documentation Practices?
What Types of Documents does GDocP Impact?
Regulatory Framework
Authenticity Aftermath
Authentic
Missing Unit Mayhem
Accurate
Time Troubles
Specific and Consistent
Data Delay
Contemporaneous
Traceability Tangles
Taceable and Verifiable
Make a Note!
Endurance Erosion
Enduring

Conclusion

Test Your Knowledge

v4.1 Minor update on 02/14/2025. Course template enhanced to provide more specific quiz completion data and a Version History document. Course content has not been changed.
v4.0 Major update on 02/12/2024. This course has been redesigned. The redesign includes new learning objectives to align with updated content, as well as a new exam for those objectives. The visual design has been updated as well.
v3.0 Minor update on 07/07/2023 to improve quiz content
v2.1 Minor update on 04/12/2023 to improve user experience
v2.0 Minor update on 03/27/2023 to improve user experience
v1.2 Minor update on 02/23/2023 to improve user experience
v1.1 Minor update on 01/19/2023 to improve user experience
v1.0 Course released in 2021
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