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Nurses notes...Print or Cursive?

Which writing style is correct? or does it even matter?

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    either....whichever is faster.

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    We are computerized for our charting and for entering orders. Anything I do have to write by hand I print. I print my end of shift report also.

    Back in the day, when I worked as a CNA and everything was written out by hand, some nurses did it in cursive and some printed. I did notice that if the nurses cursive writing was more legible that's what she did, if her printed writing was better that's the form she did.

    I don't think there is a "legal" way to do it, however your signature should be in cursive.

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    With me it depends on the pen. A fine point my cursive is OK. But if it's a gel pen or felt pen my cursive runs all together -very short letters and it looks like a crooked line-so I print. I printed all through college (pre- wordprocessor) or I used a manual typewriter for papers. Now aren't you happy to have computers?

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    my handwritten notes are a mix of cursive & print but thats my day to day style.

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    Doesn't matter as long as it's legible.

    For those who are saying that printing is the better choice because it's more legible -- not necessarily. Where I work, we have a physician who prints all her notes, but her printing looks like just a bunch of random scratch marks on the page! I've been in nursing >25 years, and she has one of the worst handwriting styles I've ever had to deal with. (Of course, I haven't seen her cursive writing -- maybe it's even worse! :D)

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