New grad, please Help with med surg organization!!

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Ok. I just completed my first day on the floor. I feel horrible, there was no structure to the day, I was just thrown out there to care for five patients with my preceptor. I know my organizational skills are severely lacking because I have never cared for five patients. I feel like I will never get this, does anyone have any updated med surg worksheets?? I have reviewed some on the site, but was wondering if anyone out there has updated examples. Any advice or input would be helpful.

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Hey there,

I know the feeling! I have been a med-surg nurse for about 6 months now and have created several worksheet :) I would be glad to share them with you, but I am having trouble finding out how to attach them--soo as soon as I figure that out I'll post them!!!

RN19

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Specializes in Home Health.

What kind of things do you find you are having trouble organizing? My days on Med Surg went something like this:

0645-0700 report

0700-0800 assessments

0800-0830(or before if done with assessments early) chart assessments

0830-1000: 0900 med pass

10-1100: finish up a.m. charting

1100 rounds and lunch blood sugars

1200: chart 1100 rounds, pass lunch trays, give insulin

1300: rounds(half of the 1400 meds if I have a lot) and charting

1400: try to catch a break or catch up on charting

1500: (last half of 1400 meds) rounds and charting

1630: blood sugars

1700: pass trays/make rounds/insulins/charting

1800: final rounds to make sure IV bags are full and give 1900 meds

1845 report

:D

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Specializes in Cardio-Pulmonary; Med-Surg; Private Duty.
RN19 said:
Hey there,

I know the feeling! I have been a med-surg nurse for about 6 months now and have created several worksheet ? I would be glad to share them with you, but I am having trouble finding out how to attach them--soo as soon as I figure that out I'll post them!!!

RN19

If you "go advanced" to post, there is a paperclip/attachment button just to the right of the "size" drop-down menu.

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Specializes in Pediatric Cardiology.

I'll share my "brain" because I created it myself and I am quite proud of it! :smug:

There is a lot to it but it keeps me organized.

Nursing Brain (3pt).doc

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Specializes in Surgical/Stepdown, Home Care.

Here's my brain sheet: enough room for a patient sticker in the top left, and it's for night shift on a primarily surgical floor. I personally like open, yet organized space to jot down information. I take initial report in black ink, and then I'll pick a color and jot my own findings for the day in that color. After that, if I'm working three days in a row, I'll use a different color for each day so that I know what's new with that patient. Best of luck, your system will come to you (and improve!) with time.

report sheet.pdf

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Thank you so much everyone, I appreciate. It

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Heyy i am a student of medi surg can u plj help me out

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I have been on a med surg-floor for just about 2 years. They hectic-ness gets better, but you still have those days that everything is just crazy. A good brain will help so that way you at least know what you still have to do at a glance. I have tried to attach it, but even with going advanced I can't figure it out. This is what works best with me. We have 5-6 patients a piece so that is why there is 3 to a page. What I do is highlight the things that I need to do. Like not all my patients are nurse draws or daily weights, so I would highlight them to make sure I do them. I use highlighters a lot, a little bit of my OCD coming out. Like pink is for what things I needs to do, blue is for observation patients (we have to chart certain things on them), orange is DNR, green is for things I need to make sure that I pass on that I might forget. My best advice is to write things down, especially little things about assessments. Don't always just go by what the previous nurse charted.

If you want a copy let me know

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This is actually a pretty nice brain sheet! Thanks.

PediLove2147 said:
I'll share my "brain" because I created it myself and I am quite proud of it! :smug:

There is a lot to it but it keeps me organized.

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Specializes in HIV, Psych, GI, Hepatology, Research.

Ok I want this brain sheet too please :-) PM me and I will give you my email.

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Specializes in Pediatric Cardiology.

porkey2: Thanks! I worked hard on it.

Anyone who wants mine, I attached it to my previous post. Just click and save to your computer.

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