Electronic charting of kangaroo care/holding

[lmwnnicurn]

How do you chart kangaroo holding in the electronic record? Do you have an extra flow sheet or do you chart it in the assessment record? Do you chart the type of transfer too?

Especially interested in anyone who uses Epic.

[MGMR]

We use EPIC charting system in our peds cardiac ICU, and there's a column in the flowsheet called skin-to-skin.

[BittyBabyGrower, MSN, RN]

It's built into our EPIC for time and with who, tolerance and proper positioning.

[TeenyTiny, ADN, BSN]

We created a separate tab in EPIC to document infant holding that includes time the session was started, type of transfer, the person who is holding and vital signs. It is recommended by the United States Institute of Kangaroo Care that transfer type be included in documentation.

[NYbabyRN, BSN, RN]

My facility uses Soarian Clinicals and in the VS electronic flowsheet there is a section in which documentation of parent presence can be documented, including if parent did skin to skin with infant. It's a drop down option and click the box type of charting. Even if you don't document vital signs you can still open this flowsheet and document that the parent did skin to skin.