Newborn nursery report sheet

[jadu1106]

hello allnurses.com members,

i have researched on allnurses.com and need help finding report sheets nurses use for the newborn nursery. while i have found a few on here that mitchsmom has posted and are great tools, i wanted to know if anyone else would be willing to share what they use. i have one i have gotten from work, but its a copy made from a copy of a copy, and needs to be redone, and feel it needs some additional information added, so i have been working on that today. if anyone has one they wouldn't mind sharing, i would be so grateful.

thank you!

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p.s. i know i probably should have posted in the ob-gyn forum area, but i felt that i could possibly get more response from the general discussion area. thank you!

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Hello. I have worked in a newborn nursery unit, and the daily report sheets we used were developed by in-house nursing staff for the particular needs of the newborns and the pediatricians for our unit. Here are some of the categories which were on our shift report sheets: total number of infants currently in the nursery; patients who were transferred to neonatal intensive care due to significant problems; patients with special needs such as patients with mild birth defects; lab orders; lab results; procedures needed such as circumcisions; and parents who had extra teaching needs such as moms who were having difficulty with breast feeding. If you are helping with revision of a current shift report form, it might be helpful for you to ask your supervisor if you could call other local hospitals and professionally ask about what helpful categories are on their report forms. Best wishes!