How long does it take to give report?

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I will be starting a 7 pm to 730am shift as a new grad in July. If your shift ends at 730, how long does it take to give report, and what time do you usually end up leaving the hospital?

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Crystal

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Specializes in Med/Surg.

We usually give report at 7, it can take anywhere from 30min- 1 hr depending on the patients and the nurses you are giving report to. I usually leave between 0730 and 0745

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Specializes in Utilization Management.

It depends on who is giving report and what has happened during the shift. I work 7a-7p. We go into report at 6:30am/pm and "normally" it takes approx. 30 minutes for everyone to finish. Some nurses, though, like to go on and on and on about each patient. This morning, for example, report took almost an hour b/c a particularly chatty nurse was working.

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Thank you both :)

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Specializes in ms, neuro, critical care, rehab.

Is this group report or individual report? Is this a taped report or verbal report. Some floors have nurses report to supervisors then the supervisors "give report" to the next shift. As a new grad don't discount those chatty nurses giving extra detail it might help you unless they stray from patient content and get into personal matters and mud slinging regarding other coworkers. How is your "report" structured.:confused:

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Specializes in CVICU.

For face-to-face verbal report in ICU, it could be anywhere from 15 minutes to 45 minutes per patient, depending on the RN's involved and the complexity of the case. I could give and take a very quick report because I talk fast and I don't need to write every word down, and I don't need you to tell me any of the norms, just what's wrong or tests or events I need to know about. Some people want to give/get every little teeny detail about the patient. I'm too polite to tell them to shut up and move it along, so I adapt my report style to the person I'm reporting off to/vice versa.

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I work in a hospital on a neuro floor, we have 4 patients each and do verbal report outside the patients room. Night shift comes in at 1915 and I'm usually out by 2000. I have been as early as 1930 but that is when all 4 of my patents were going back to the same nurses so updates were all that I needed. There are some nurses that take a lot longer to give/get report (I try to get to them first but so does everyone else). The latest I have been there was 2030 but that also had to do with catching up on some charting.

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Specializes in Emergency & Trauma/Adult ICU.

This is highly variable by the type of unit, report format, and the way that patient assignments are structured.

In the unit it can easily take 30 minutes to give report on 2 patients. In the ER, I can give report on 4-6 patients in about 10 minutes.

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Specializes in ICU.

Day shift came on at 7am in the ICU. Report ranged from 5 minutes to 45 minutes depending on the nurse coming on and the patients we had. If it was an experienced nurse and we both had the same assignment as the day before, there wasn't much to tell. Hit the high points and move on. If was a complex patient or two and a lot going on, then it took a lot longer. Even to the point of going into the room and showing the on coming RN things personally. Of course, if the very sick patient decides that this is the perfect time to code ... well, you can forget about going home any time soon! :uhoh3: :p

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Report can consist of, "Nothing new, no changes", especially if you work in long term care and you are receiving report from the same nurse as yesterday for the same assignment. However, there is usually someone who got sick and placed on alert charting, or someone is due for some lab draws in the morning, and you are required to deal with it or pass the info on.

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It depends. I generally have 5 patients on my Tele floor. If one nurse takes all five of my patients, report can take only 10-15 minutes. There are some days, however, that I take/give report to 3 or 4 different nurses. That takes forever!

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Thank you everyone!! I will be in the CVICU, I havent had a chance to work at this facility before, so Im not really sure how they give report. I think our ratio for ICU is 2-3 pt depending upon severity, and 1:1 with fresh post-op hearts, IABPs ect. I am so worried about giving report myself, we didnt practice giving report until my last semester in NS, and it was not structured at all....I will probably be the nurse who takes way too long to give report :eek:

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