Illegible Handwriting

Nurses General Nursing

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Specializes in LTC, home health, critical care, pulmonary nursing.

I'm a first semester student, and the hospital I do clinicals at does handwritten nurses' notes, and God help me if I can ever read those. Computers, people!

AuntieRN

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Specializes in Med/Surg.

Our hospital has a policy that if you can not read someones writing you have to write up an incident report and then call them. There is no guessing.

I used to work on an Ortho floor where you could not read one of the docs orders. yes we usually knew what he was ordering since he usually ordered the same thing for the same surgery on everyone..but...one day he wrote something we could not make out....the funny part is he couldnt make it out either...so he wrote....d/c above order....LOL....

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