Charge Nurse Report Forms

[strider76]

I recently took over the position of Primary charge nurse on telemetry floor. I am looking for a way to streamline our charge nurse reports.

As it is currently, our charge nurse for each shift fills out a form which is printed from Meditech. The form simply states the name, room #, age, and diagnosis and then the charge nurse handwrites in relevent patient information in for each patient. The nurses typically include things like, IVF, any drips, A&O, confused, restraints, any consults/tests ordered for the upcoming shift, etc.

I have discussed this form with our new director and she has suggested up making up a spreadsheet (possibly in excel) where information can be more in a 'checklist' form and could be copied and pasted from shift to shift if remains pertinent.

I'm looking for ideas, suggestions, or examples of forms used at other places. The way we do it now is quite time consuming!

Thanks!! :hotchocolate:

[Mommy&RN, BSN, RN]

I would be happy to send you the form I use for report. I am on a surgical floor, so I am sure you will need quite a few adjustments, but maybe it will give you a starting place. I can't PM, so if you want to send me your email, I will send it to you.

[west7107]

This is something I'm looking for too. I work in a BMT unit, and as of now we are writing charge nurse report every night. As you can imagine there is alot going on with these pts. We are writing rewriting information that never changes, such as hx, allergies, chemo protocol, what type of tx, ect. Of coorifice this takes forever. I'm looking for a good method, that you pretty much are just writing what happened that day. As of now we are trashing the day report sheets, when I think they should be kept as resource. There has to be a way to do it on the computer, so if any suggestions I would be greatly thankful.

[AErvin]

I also am an Assistant Nurse Manager on a 47-bed PCU...and end of shift report can sometime take up to 45 minutes if not longer due to situations that come up. I am trying to work on a way to give the 'down and dirty' in report and get out on time!

Any suggestions?

[jmroberts]

I am also looking to create a tool to use for our charge nurse shift report on a telemetry floor. Does anyone have any suggestions in developing one, or suggestions about what they use on their floor? As of right now, the charge nurse on our floor report is mostly verbal.

[PacoUSA, BSN, RN]

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This is something I'm looking for too. I work in a BMT unit and as of now we are writing charge nurse report every night. As you can imagine there is alot going on with these pts. We are writing rewriting information that never changes, such as hx, allergies, chemo protocol, what type of tx, ect. Of coorifice this takes forever. I'm looking for a good method, that you pretty much are just writing what happened that day. As of now we are trashing the day report sheets, when I think they should be kept as resource. There has to be a way to do it on the computer, so if any suggestions I would be greatly thankful.

Our unit updates a Word doc and reuses that every shift, we don't rewrite from scratch.