Do you carry a clipboard

[luvdancink]

When you take report on your patients, and are making notes throughout the day, do you carry a clipboard? I'm thinking about trying it, but I have a feeling I'll let it lay and then when a doc calls, I wont have the info that I need. How do you all keep track of everything?

~Kristy (New Nurse)

[Antikigirl, ASN, RN]

I tried so hard to just carry the small notebook that fits into my pocket. But with the ton of pens (I have to have tons, I leave them too many places..LOL!), my walkie, my cel phone, all my keys, and various other things that make their way into my pockets...it or something else would fall out when I bent over (not to mention hitting so many things with over ladened hip pockets..LOL! I felt huge! LOL!).

Naaaaaa I keep my clipboard with me..and residents would be so confused if they didn't' see me walking down the hallway with my eyes on my clipboard (looking up every few second to make sure I am not going to run into someone) and writing away. Heck, with all the charting we do in a day..I have to chart on the go!