Response Hall Smith and Palmer

I agree that technical writing is a way to get accurate information to people. Melissa will see when she starts into clinicals, she will use a lot of technical writing on the nursing units. Not only do you document for other health care professionals, you will have to use technical writing for discharge instructions for patients and family members. You will have to take that nursing language and put it into simple to understand terms with easy to follow instructions. You may have a patient going home with a dressing change to a wound and you will have to give them written step by step instructions without leaving anything out or they will not be able to follow thru with what they need to do. I did not realize that what I did was called technical writing before this class.