Clincal Paperwork

since I'm first semester my clinical ppwork is probably shorter than yours but I find it takes me a good 2 hours or so - and I only have one patient...right now we're not required to do the meds (just list them) because we haven't had pharm yet.

I've found its much much faster to google the diagnoses rather than page through my med/surg book - not sure if you use that strategy or not - perhaps that could help...

just a quick hug and keep your chin up! I'm glad your instructor let you go home to sleep...

For two patients, it takes me about 5-6 hours to write everything up; and, that's if everything goes perfectly. The amount of paperwork they give us as we get closer and closer to the end is ridiculous...I've looked up "Acetaminophen" at least 15 times, why can't I just tell whether or not it's a safe dose, describe side effects to look for, and go on to some other med that I don't know? Arrrgh, frustrating!

But don't give up, the light at the end of the tunnel is not a train!

For two patients, it takes me about 5-6 hours to write everything up; and, that's if everything goes perfectly. The amount of paperwork they give us as we get closer and closer to the end is ridiculous...I've looked up "Acetaminophen" at least 15 times, why can't I just tell whether or not it's a safe dose, describe side effects to look for, and go on to some other med that I don't know? Arrrgh, frustrating!

But don't give up, the light at the end of the tunnel is not a train!

i know its not a train...ive already been hit by it LOL!

thanks for the replys :)..im glad im not the only one drowning in this mess lol

Okay, you will get faster at this. One thing you might want to do is make yourself a spreadsheet with the most commonly prescribed drugs and the info needed for each medication. In the winter, you may find that you have a lot of pneumonia patients, keep all your prior work so that you can reuse some of that info. I was so thankful to have evening clinicals to start with so that I could work on the preps in the evening and then the next day. My friend who had morning clinicals was staying up until 2 am and waking up at 5 am and was just dying last year from lack of sleep. We compared notes and I had her compare notes with some people who were getting there preps done in 2-3 hours. We both culled down our preps to just the very necessary info. In the beginning my instructor would ask WHY is THIS patient receiving THIS medication. Eventually I figured out that the same drug might be given for different reasons. Your brain will begin to put random info together to make sense out of it all. It won't always be this awful...... just keep persevering.