change of shift report

[NS_RN]

1. taped

2. verbal

3. written

Which do you prefer?

[NS_RN]

Oops....I meant to put written, not verbal! Goofed my own poll.LOL

[KC CHICK]

Verbal. That's how we do it.

[RRMLPN]

verbal.. though at times it can get lengthy.

[OBNURSEHEATHER]

What do we do, or what do I prefer?

We do a taped report. But it isn't uncommon for me to get tied up and have to give a verbal at shift change. I just prefer verbal.

Heather

[night owl]

I prefer verbal and we do verbal only because if we or they have any questions, we/they are there to answer them instead of listening to a tape or reading out of a report book.

[bossynurse]

our floor does verbal report which I prefer. There are some things that should not be said on tape!!!! new policy though, pts coming from surgery or transfers-we get faxed report. Everyone in the hospital hates it except the brilliant minds that thought it up.

[OBNURSEHEATHER]

We also get faxed report from L&D-->post partum, and verbal report (via phone) from PACU-->gyn.

So there really is no ONE way!

Heather

[dv8rn]

We give verbal report about half the time,at the bedside. I like it best, you can tell the oncoming nurse,"this is what the drainage, or whatever looks like."

[NURS4GOD]

dv8rn, I hate bedside report!! How can you discreetly say, "This patient is absolutely a pain in the rear" in front of them?!? Just kidding, I know those things can be said in private away from the patient. We do verbal team report and that is a pain because you have to sit throught report on 10-12 patients. It lasts TOO LONG!!!!!!!!

Becky

[Sleepyeyes]

I like taped; it eliminates all but the necessities. Talk as fast as you want, there's the pause button.

On my end of it, i don't hafta get asked irrelevant, uniimportant questions that have nothing to do with what i did on my shift. (altho I will give you a heads-up on which labs to expect on which pts. and the results if they're in, but usually they're not)

[bigred]

We have taped report. I prefer it. We used to do verbal reports and they could be very lengthy. I used to get annoyed when I would give verbal report and some of the staff would start talking amongst themselves. Sometimes they would be disruptive enough that I would stop and wait for them to be quiet. There is still the same problem with the taped report, but at least I can hit the pause button until things quiet down. Do I like to control? Not much! I work on 3 units, and so do some of the other nursing staff. The way the facility is set up, most of us agree that the taped report works quite well for us.