Best one sentence handoff report

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Specializes in Emergency.

My handoff to the oncoming rn was "300 pounds, off meds, homicidal intent". The was more of course but that summed it up. Let's hear 'em.

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Specializes in community small-town med/icu unit.

stretcher 13 died, call the funeral home please.

(tho she was palliative and died 1/2 hr before shift change, family had just left the room, was a tx for pain management)

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Specializes in this and that.

Report from Nights to Days ( IN PATIENT PSYCH UNIT )

Everybody slept....the night nurse yawned heavily also on tape for x5 minutes:redpinkhe

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Specializes in this and that.

PSYCH MD TO NIGHT NURSE telephone admission orders

You called me for that? Put him on same **** as before...hanged up the phone after that.....:lol2:

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Specializes in Emergency, Telemetry, Transplant.

"Pt is morbidly obese....a monitor lead fell off, we could not find the wire; is was stuck underneath one of her rolls." (sorry if this sounds rude, this is what acutally happened)

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Specializes in Critical Care/Coronary Care Unit,.

This patient is gonna die. Good luck.

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Specializes in EMS, ED, Trauma, CEN, CPEN, TCRN.

LOL in NAD. :D

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Specializes in ED.

Same old Ricky, fall due to drinking, off for his 10th CT this month.

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Specializes in pediatrics, public health.

I worked in pediatric rehab, and some of our patients were with us for months. There was one nurse in particular who tended to be very terse with his reports -- sometimes his entire report on a stable pt that he knew that I knew was "he's fine" or "nothing new".

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Specializes in Professional Development Specialist.

They did taped reports in our LTC ward for a while and one morning a coworker came in to "Everyone's fine, crush everything." It's still an inside joke years later.

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Specializes in Peds/Neo CCT,Flight, ER, Hem/Onc.

God be with you.

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On a taped report from nights, 30 min of silence, followed by a snort and then, "sorry, I fell asleep"

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