(Just for grins) Pet Peeve of the Week: chart hoarding

[ByTheLake]

I love our Residents. I love getting to be a part of their training, and watching them grow over the years they're with us. We have a great bunch who are mostly a blast to work with. But there seems to be a worm in many of their brains. That worm causes them to do strange things like stack charts under their left elbows and hoard them there like a dragon with his gold and jewels, curl up and nap on them, and then 45 minutes later, wonder why a med they wrote for 45 minutes ago just was given 10 minutes ago... Um, did you forget that that order was being incubated on your lap and attended to by you like a mother hen attends to her eggs for the first 30 minutes after you wrote it?? And that the only way I could have learned of its existence sooner would be to have given you a pat-down last time I passed through the nurse's station?

[godbless-yute]

I thought that by now most hospitals were on to electronic charting, but based on you guys comments, I'm guessing I was very wrong about that....care to share where you guys are? (just curious)

[mwboswell]

Seems like an odd habit...why would they want to carry it around instead of handing it off to the people who need it?

The exact same reason why they come back to a chart every 15 minutes to write ONE-MORE single-line order....