Re: Question about charting
Yes, you can just write the basics in the log book, but be careful that it doesn't look like you're "omitting" information from the "official" logbook--all the important details must be there. I don't keep individual charts (my girls don't usually stay longer than a week), but I do send notes home to the parents detailing their health care, and these notes are usually quite different from my nurse's notes--layperson's terms, in some cases more details.
Think about the PURPOSE of each chart and let that guide what you do with it--for me, at least, the primary purpose of the main logbook is for continuity of care--so that anyone else who cares for the camper who's come in again can see what I did previously and either continue with that or change it, as needed. For you, since you keep detailed individual chart, someone else providing care would see the short note in the main logbook and look up the details in the individual chart. I think that system should work well.
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