HH drowning in documentation...help

The best advice I was given about charting from an experienced follow-up visit nurse, was utilizing "boiler plate" charting. Of course if you are describing something that has changed from the previous visit you are going to have to describe the differences, but if this was a routine visit with the same presentation as the last one, you could write a note that closely follows the previous note, or write the boiler plate up to the point where you describe the changes, if you understand what I am trying to convey. This nurse also told me that her agency was ok with the use of "boiler plate", as long as the visit was satisfactorily done and the note met the minimum standards to show that the goal of the visit was met. In other words, she wrote a lot of the same stuff over and over because it applied over and over. Her agency was not looking for the next best seller novel.