Dosing Off While Charting ?

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some of you know how hard it is trying to stay awake doing a one on one. have any of you fine yourself dosing when charting or anyone else? or even have to sit for a long period of time?

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Only once. I'd had little sleep due to some pretty serious personal issues. Weird thing is, I kept writing. When I 'came to' (it only lasted for a matter of seconds), I'd written a few words, perfectly legible, but nonsense. I fixed my charting, then got up, took a brisk walk and grabbed some coffee.

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Nope. When I'm charting, I'm wide awake and thinking, so....no.

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Specializes in Med/Surg, Ortho.

I used to get the sleepies when we still did paper charting at the door. Asleep on your feet trying to do notes at the end of a long night shift. Some were legible some werent. I hate nights.

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Specializes in Cardiac.

When I have a 1:1 patient, I'm too busy to be tired.

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Specializes in Infection Preventionist/ Occ Health.

Some of my colleagues in the lab used to get so tired that they would start dosing off at the microscope at 5am- no fun when you have to start counting cells all over again! I would sometimes catch myself become tired when I was doing data entry at the end of my shift (again in the lab).

Now that I'm a nurse, I tend to write all of my notes in about 10 minutes about an hour and a half before the end of my shift. If anything else happens I just add an addendum. I compose the notes in my mind throughout the night and so I only have to fire them off.

I am moving around too much as a nurse to get tired at work, but the drive home is another story.... :(

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Specializes in icu, er, transplant, case management, ps.

When I was younger and after working a couple of doubles, I would sometimes drop off to sleep, while standing at the end of a patient's bed and charting. Now that I am a great deal older and no longer able to work, I am wide a wake at 4A.M.

Woody:balloons:

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there has been times especially on the p.m shift after getting done putting everyone to bed and as soon as i sit down waiting to do the next rounds or charting i have found myself dosing or even when my work is done and its not time to clock out i fine myself dosing.

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Specializes in CCU, SICU, CVSICU, Precepting & Teaching.
some of you know how hard it is trying to stay awake doing a one on one. have any of you fine yourself dosing when charting or anyone else? or even have to sit for a long period of time?

dosing off? what's that?

if you mean dozing off, yes. i once wrote a note about "awaiting the tree surgeon to evaluate the limb". my handwriting got smaller and smaller, and about the time it deteriorated into a straight line which disappeared off the edge of the page, i fell out of my chair and woke up!

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dosing off? what's that?

if you mean dozing off, yes. i once wrote a note about "awaiting the tree surgeon to evaluate the limb". my handwriting got smaller and smaller, and about the time it deteriorated into a straight line which disappeared off the edge of the page, i fell out of my chair and woke up!

i like that. hope you didn't get hurt falling out of your chair. i used to doze off in the early morning. doesn't happen much anymore.

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Specializes in CCU,ICU,ER retired.

Yep done that I was dozing off and wrote "ambulating down the halls of the castle" and "The Russians are coming, The Russians are coming" and yes I had been watching the same said movie earlier in the day

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