If your LTC facility insists on staying with paper charting...

[Catch22Personified]

Then for the sake of sanity thin the charts! The other day was my first day working/orienting on the actual Long Term floors in the facility. Since I'm night shift our shift is responsible for seeing if orders have been carried out and what have you on top of the regular charting. The place I work at has a high turnover rate, and I don't want my first job to be a flop.

Some of these patients have been here so long if you wanted to do your regular charting you'd have a problem even doing that day's charting since that page is missing in a mass of paper. Heck most of the time you don't even have time to chart, except for charting anything that was out of the ordinary.

I seriously hope the Health Care Reform Act's provision of electronic charting actually effects LTC facilities in the future.

[CaliforniaRNnow]

Well, my first job was a flop. And yes, they still stuck to paper charting. Thick old paper charting.

[Juwon]

The ltc facility I work at uses computer charting. I think they use computer charting because they use to be affiliated with the neighboring hospital. The majority of the nurses say they like it better than paper charting.