Incident reports

[CapeCodMermaid]

UGH...our incident report is about 15 pages long. If we find a bruise we are supposed to fill out the whole 15 pages! Then, we are expected to do an investigation...interview EVERYONE who had contact with the resident until we find someone who can tell us what happened. It is so time consuming and demeaning that lots of the nurse's aides have told me they will no longer report bruises. I know abuse is a terrible thing, but are we going overboard???

Any one with a one or two page incident report?

[lllStephanielll]

I guess I shouldn't complain about filling out incident reports anymore. Ours are 1 page front and back. Last night I filled out three and it still took me a while. If I had to fill out a 15 page report for every bruise, skin tear, fall, etc...I just wouldn't do it. Sometimes people need to just use common sense--who came up with a 15 page incident report form??? They need to be fired! Nursing is not about filling out paper work.

[CapeCodMermaid, RN]

I am happy to report that our 15 page incident reports are no longer used!!! We now have a 1 page report with 2 additional pages for investigation. The compliance rate with filling them out completely has soared.