Is There Something Wrong With This Report?

Specialties Geriatric

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Scene: Shift change. 3pm. Nurses Station in a Nursing Home. Very small blurb in communication book. No information about resident BMS. Report begins.

"So, did --- finally have a BM? He was on his 3rd day.."

"I don't know."

"You don't know? What do you mean? You were doing Meds, right?"

"Well, I wasn't the only one here."

Discuss. Do you find anything wrong with this exchange?

I don't know whether everyone on my hall crapped. If I run the bm report I do but generally I have to say "Ask the aide for the flow book."[/quote']

Absolutely, for the nurses. But this WAS the aide! :)

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Specializes in LTC, Memory loss, PDN.

so this is a report between aides?

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Absolutely, for the nurses. But this WAS the aide! :)

But she was working a med cart that day. She would still be toileting?

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Specializes in Med/Surge, Psych, LTC, Home Health.

Yeah, I'm confused. If I'm a medication aide and I've spent all shift giving medication, I don't know that I can

be expected to know who all pooped. If I'm the nursing aide, sure. Did this aide give the meds AND toilet

all of her residents? That's an awful lot of work for one person.

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Yeah, I'm confused. If I'm a medication aide and I've spent all shift giving medication, I don't know that I can

be expected to know who all pooped. If I'm the nursing aide, sure. Did this aide give the meds AND toilet

all of her residents? That's an awful lot of work for one person.

Communication. No one talks to eachother anymore. They all just do their own thing and clock out as soon as they can. Makes me sad. :(

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