How to set limits during end of shift report?

[willowRN]

Some nurses liketo browse the entire chart of the patient during end fo shift which does not really work out if you only got 30 mins. to give report for 7 patients. Is it okay and how do you politely say that I've given all the pertinent information and can she please browse on her own time?

I'm having a lot of stress giving report . I mean some llook uninterested, I guess I'll just have to ignore them and go on with it. But it's nice to feel like you're understood. I don't if that's because I sound serious or what but if I sound light my voice sounds like a kidand i dont want that hmm.

---really young hard working nurse who just wants to be understood and taken seriously

[Andy Droid]

Just tell the ones that are browsing "I've been here X many hours, and I'm out of here in X many minutes.... I've given all the pertinent information, so do you have any question before I'm done in X minutes?"

If they give you greif, you might consider going to HR to explain the situation, and "suggest" they schedule a longer shift overlap. (or would it suit them better if you kept track of all the minutes, and then when they total 60, you get the hour overtime?)

[jadelpn, LPN, EMT-B]

Maybe at your next staff meeting, you can talk about report, and perhaps using a patient report sheet. However, I know that report can sometimes take a long time. Lots of places are using the SBAR form of reporting. I would say from square one--Any questions? And move on. If the nurse is still browsing and not listening to your report, she will stop you. Then is the time to say "I have to report off 7 patients to you, and we both need to be out of here in 20 minutes". I like to touch on new orders and even unusual med times, just as a heads up. Otherwise, just keep talking--the other nurse will get it. You don't necessarily have to wait while she browses.

[anotherone, BSN, RN]

some people can multi task. some reports are useless or not too imformative. most people start on time. if not someone says "it is 7 or past 7 I want to get out of here!"

[jennilynn]

I have a similar issue where I work. We do "bedside report" and there are a couple of nurses that will interrupt report to check IV sites, call tele for a reading, in essence they are starting their assessments and will continue unless they are told otherwise. At 0715, I am ready to go!they have the next couple of hours to complete their tasks, I'm done. I usually try to politely redirect them and if they don't get it, I just say alright, next pt and walk out if the room.

[msjellybean]

I have a similar issue where I work. We do "bedside report" and there are a couple of nurses that will interrupt report to check IV sites, call tele for a reading, in essence they are starting their assessments and will continue unless they are told otherwise. At 0715, I am ready to go!they have the next couple of hours to complete their tasks, I'm done. I usually try to politely redirect them and if they don't get it, I just say alright, next pt and walk out if the room.

I work with a noc shift RN that does this. She has even gone so far as to call the doc during report & then have to duck out of another report when they call back. What gets me is, she has no respect for the fact that I want to go home - but come 06:53 (the earliest you can clock in), she's like, "Ok! I want to go home! Let's do report now!"

[NurseStorm, BSN, RN]

We use a small voice recorder, and record our reports, then at shift change the new staff goes in to listen to the recorded report and take notes. I always assumed everywhere did this, as the 4 facilities I worked at all used this method. Maybe suggest it to your manager?

We only do a verbal report if we were super busy and did not get a chance to tape, we will give a quick verbal instead.