LeslieJBRN

NetRN, We at our facility only do a brief nursing summary twice a year right before Full House PRI's are done. The summary includes the ADL's (as described on the PRI) and and restraints, O2 or behavioral problems. We used to do them monthly (done by the charge nurses), besides being more paperwork for them, they were often times inaccurate due to them not really knowing the info we were looking for on the PRI so we stopped the "Monthly" summaries and only the unit managers do them prior to PRI submission. We have been audited and the auditor only really looked at the summaries we did to determine accuracy of our PRI's. Nurses have enough paperwork without having them do one more piece..............good luck Leslie

Hi Freddy, I am a manager in a LTC facility & in answer to your question, for a brand new care plan it only takes me an hour or 2 (uninterupted!)& that is including all the triggered problems plus I care plan for all their currant diagnosis. Right now I am in charge of setting up our Master Library for our computer systems care plans (copies of which will be on all the units) so that for a new admit or a new problem, all we will have to do is pull & personalize which will cut the time significantly down. As for my quarterly updates, I don't spend that much time (for example the other day I did 5 quarterlies in between doing other stuff that came up). Hope this helps......Leslie