Guess what I am doing on this lovely day?

[MomRN0913]

Charting. I am always charting. 3 hours yesterday and another 3 today. I'm off this weekend, and like usually, I am charting!I can't wait for this to come to an end. My daughter is with my exH this weekend, I got some me time and this is what I am doing. I almost passed up an opportunity to go to the movies with my girlfriends because the amount of charting I have to do and then I said...... Skrew that!!!Yes, I'm venting. Sorry to discourage any future HH nurses out there. Hopefully they are not all like this. Waiting for that magic call to release me from the grips!!!!

[MauraRN]

It all depends on the software system that the company uses. Healthwyse was pretty good, you could document vitals, med changes in the home and do the medicare/narrative in the car, check email, write emails or call logs at stop lights or traffic. Cerner was a nightmare, so user unfriendly, had to jump in and out of electronic chart to document vitals, glucometer readings, bowel/bladder, med changes in all different places. I spent more time documenting using that system than actual patient care. UGH!

[MauraRN]

I enter my clinical data during the visit - things like vitals, appetite, heart, lungs etc. Our software is online so I often use my iphone to enter the data right into the chart. Then I dictate the narrative into my phone right after the visit or enroute to the next visit and then email it all to my work email after the last visit. Viola! When I get home all I have to do is cut and paste the narratives into the charts. I use an iphone and Siri, but any voice recognition software will work. If I do 5 routine visits in a day, my charting takes about 1 hour. Now admits are another story... but dictating the narratives really helps me. I especially use that time if I have gotten stuck in stop and go traffic.

Great system, all home care agencies should use that.