Non important documentation

[KalipsoRed21, BSN, RN]

Here is why I hate nursing: Bureaucracy. All the little crap that doesn't matter to patient care but that we are expected to do. And I frankly am so disillusioned by nursing because of it!!! Examples:

filling out a fall report after documenting a fall, redundant. I understand the reason why the facility wants a report as well, but if you are going to make me double chart everything then I need twice the amount of time for one patient...reduce my load!

I work home health and there is sooooooooobmuch of this stupid crap in home health. We have an infection control report to do for all IV and PICC patients....it is actually all the same crap that we already document in the chart! If organizations want all this nit picky crap done they need to reduce my patient load. There is so much nitpicking little 'extras' that they want done and a week later I'm being asked to redo stuff because of this nitpicking little stuff. And yep, I'm remembering more and more every time, but if the organization keeps adding more and there are already 200 little things like this that I have to try to remember on top of actually taking care of my patient, then I require more time!!!!!!! I am so done with this field! We need a union...like a nationwide union.

[Daisy4RN]

The documentation is exactly the reason I no longer do home health. Loved the actual job but could not keep up with the endless charting. Oasis, don't even get me started.

[cleback]

Yeah, I never understood why the fall/infection control/quality people couldn't shorten their notification forms and go into the chart themselves for the information they want.

[lovingtheunloved, ASN, RN]

I long ago accepted that in nursing, there will always be someone finding a new piece of paper or flowsheet for me to fill out.

[FolksBtrippin, BSN, RN]

I refuse to double chart anything.

If I need to make a separate report on something it's going to reference my original documentation only.

[humerusRN, BSN]

I am with you - double charting is a waste of time and I WILL NOT do it.

When I am teaching new grads or students, I always sit in wonder with how much they chart. Why? Why are you charting that the patient has an ID band on every hour? You charted it at the start of your shift. Unless he takes it off, nothing has changed. Unless it has something to do with my care, or something about my patient has changed : I do not chart ANYTHING TWICE!!!!!!!

I have no idea how documentation works in home health. I would be driven mad with double charting.

[Kitiger, RN]

How about quadruple charting?

I do Private duty home care. For some clients, when I give a liquid via GT or JT, I have to chart it in the MAR, the I & O, the Narrative note, AND the parent's chart. (The parents do not have access to our computer charting.)