Paperwork?

Im finishing my pre-req's and should be in Nursing school by this Fall. Im a secretary now, and the thing i hate about it is the paperwork. Is there alot of paperwork as an RN? Or do the doctor's secretaries take care of that? Im hoping there is not.

Hello, jaylynn67,:balloons:

If you are hoping that a nurse has little to no paperwork, you will be most disappointed. We do a vast amount of paperwork. Takes much time and a real need for the nurse to know how to manage time in order to complete patient care.

You poor unsuspecting thing. Nurses are always charting to cover their butts. The patient's chart is a legal document and the physical evidence that a patient was given treatment. Yes, there is a lot of paperwork. It runs a vast gamut from writing down what you actually did with a patient to ordering diets and equipment to writing up complaints or incident reports. Instead of typing up letters for someone else you will be writing up accounts of the things you do for patients for the permanent record of the nursing care they have received. Unlike secretarial work, however, you will be doing these things for yourself and for patients who you are helping. I came from an office background and the big attraction to nursing for me has always been the one-on-one contact with people and knowing that I was doing something that was making a difference in someone's life. Oh, and in the doctor's offices guess who the secretaries usually are?