OB Report Sheets

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Specializes in PERI OPERATIVE.

Hi. I work at a small hospital in the OB department as an RN. I've worked here about one year, and we have yet to refine a report sheet that meets all of our needs. We service both OB patients and newborns (couplets) as well as In-Patient GYN (usually post op). Can anyone give me an example of the report sheet you use as a template? I've been having the hardest time trying to come up with one that works. Thanks in advance! :rolleyes:

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Specializes in OB, Telephone Triage, Chart Review/Code.

Hi Jen! I use one that I can't work without. I have tried others, but always fall back on this one.

I just got off work, so I will try to put it together for you some time this week.

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Specializes in PERI OPERATIVE.

Thank you so much! YAY!

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Specializes in Specializes in L/D, newborn, GYN, LTC, Dialysis.

Ours is pretty basic. You need to poll the coworkers to see what would work best. All we have is patient, room number, age, doctor, med number etc. We add above and beyond that for our use based on report. It works fine and you can do what you want with it. Mine is my "brain", it stays on my clipboard til end of shift when I give report. I just add vital signs and specifics (plenty of room since they are largely blank) and give report off that. We use Meditech, by the way, if this helps.

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That's funny. I see nurses in L&D using report sheets, but they don't do me a bit of good. Most times, even on a good shift, I may change patients at LEAST two or three times, since we don't keep our patients for postpartum. My mind has just become a trap of maternal info...and then I discard it once I've given report to the PP nurse.

the only patients that I've found I have to write info down on are our antepartum patients who have "stuff" going on with them: ABx to keep track off, steroids, tocolytic infusions and levels, etc. But the Antepartum unit nurses have designed a really nice one which we've adopted up here when we have those pts. And the cool thing is that we just keep it on the chart as a quick reference and it's updated daily/nightly prn.

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Specializes in Postpartum, Lactation.

We each have our own. I just made mine on my PC.

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