New to home care and need help!

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Hi! I am new to home care and I am overwhelmed by he quantity of paper work. My preceptor is extremey quick at it which is good for her, but it is hard for me to follow and I keep forgetting things. Does any one have a system to help keep paper work organized, for speeding up paper work? My agency is still on the pen and paper system. Today I was out on my own for the first time on my second week on he job and had a recert with a foley catheter change,wound care and PT INR and a revisit with someone quite confused with COPD. There were MD. calls to make and urine to take to the lab. It's the eveing and I still haven't finished the recert documentation! I love being with the patient at home-- it's wonderful. But I need tips, little tricks to keep the paperwork as simple as possible. I worked in an inpatient hosice setting in the past and my paper work was always good and fairly efficient there. Here, I feel like I've been knowcked upside the head. I feel terrible that it looks like it will take me months and months to learn this and be quick at it. Ideas, encouragement, experience? HelP!

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hi all- I started this thread feeling rather desperate about the paper work and I am now finishing week four on my new job. I have been realizing this week that I absolutely love my job. Yes, the paperwork is awful and sometimes even silly. This is the approach I took. I followed the advice of one writer on this thread and organized my SOC visits differently starting with the med list and using a cheat sheet to make sure I didn't miss important elements. I'm trying to write as much in the home as I can. I am also really preparing for the visits writing anything that can be written in advance. The most important thing I did was I told my supervisor that the best way for me to learn the process would be to do a lot of SOCs and ROCs and Recerts until I get the hang of it. I've been doing one a day or sometimes 4 revisits. I figure the best way is not to avoide the hard stuff but just to do it over and over. As you can imagine my supervisor is only too glad to have me do her intakes and recerts! And it really is a good way. The first few days felt like hell, but suddenly I see the light. If you take too long between doing the big paperwork items like SOC you keep having to relearn the same thing. A lot of repetition really helps. I am so excited to be learning this part better so I can focus on patients. I have to thank all who encouraged me on this thread. You helped me hang in there and get creative. I am interested in anything and everything anyone has to say about what helped them learn this job.