I believe in charting by exception. My co-workers do not. If I report off on a patient because my shift is over or I'm taking a lunch break I often get the chart back the next day with my co-worker saying. I saved this for you so you could chart. They even, and I KNOW this is a no no, leave a blank space above their charting with the same message, I left space for you to chart!!!! What is craziest is I work for a chain of surgical centers owned by the same parent corporation and "float" to different sites. They all use the same forms. At an orthopedic center 1/2 mile up the street from my "home" base they all chart by exception. I'm just venting here but any ideas or feedback on how to get charting by exception as the norm, not the exception at my home base! All the centers have a perfectly adequate, about 20 item, check list of; airway patent, dressing dry, bladder distended, nausea, etc.
brownbook
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I believe in charting by exception. My co-workers do not. If I report off on a patient because my shift is over or I'm taking a lunch break I often get the chart back the next day with my co-worker saying. I saved this for you so you could chart. They even, and I KNOW this is a no no, leave a blank space above their charting with the same message, I left space for you to chart!!!! What is craziest is I work for a chain of surgical centers owned by the same parent corporation and "float" to different sites. They all use the same forms. At an orthopedic center 1/2 mile up the street from my "home" base they all chart by exception. I'm just venting here but any ideas or feedback on how to get charting by exception as the norm, not the exception at my home base! All the centers have a perfectly adequate, about 20 item, check list of; airway patent, dressing dry, bladder distended, nausea, etc.