Faxed Patient Report Form

[MoodyButt]

We are considering faxed patient reports to inpatient units. Anyone want to give advise on this, pro's, con's, what your policy is? Anyone have a form they are willing to share? Thanks in advance.

[m1chelleRN]

I am in the process of working on a form that is quick and easy for when they get report from the hospital on new admits. Would anyone like to send me a link or a pdf file of what your facility uses? Whether it is a transfer form, telephone report sheet or faxed report form.. anything helps! Thank you!

You can email it directly to me at [email protected]

(please make note that my email address is with the NUMBER 1, not the letter i)

[LilgirlRN, ADN, RN]

As others have said, we like, they don't like. We don't do it at the hospital where I work now but did do it a the past two places I worked. The last place, the charge nurse was the designated receiver of the fax. We'd call say the fax is coming. Wait 15 mins, call ask if they got the fax, then give them the opportunity to ask questions. Took about 30 mins from start tio finish to get the patient where they needed to be.

Here we have Cerner-Millenium First Net. I suggested that the floors be given copies of this program. If they had it they could look at the patient's we're going to be sending to them, they can pull up labs, etc. Whoever is the head honcho of this shot it down. I think it would be great to be able to call the floor give a very brief report and tell them to look at Ms X in room 14. Makes sense to me.