Incident Reports

[DaisyRN2]

Are students sent to you merely for an incident report to be filled out? I keep getting students who are typically a target of a bullying incident, have no actual injury, but are sent to me to "have it documented." I will put a note in my standard charting system. But I do not feel like I should be the one to do the incident mainly because I did not see it. I was told I need to be doing incident reports in this situation. Does anyone else this issue?

[k1p1ssk, BSN, RN]

We have two forms - accident reports (for things where a serious injury occurred or injury caused by school property which we want to track) and incident reports (for behavioral incidents where physicial or serious verbal harm came to another individual or property was damaged).

I am basically in charge of all accident reports as I assess everyone with an injury and essentially am the deciding factor if one should be filled out. I won't often fill out an incident report, and only if myself or my office is involved in the "incident".

[NurseAlice]

Thanks guys! This will help me cover those grey areas when dealing with anxious teachers. And yes, I always have one or two that sneak up on me after the student goes home. The amount of documenting that comes with school nursing surprises me sometimes.