superdeluxe

Like many new nurses posting on this board, I'm having trouble organizing the info I get during change of shift and during my shift and also tasks I need to complete. As a result, I end up spending unnecessary time looking for information I probably have written somewhere and also quadruple checking that I've done a task already. And I don't feel like I give report in the most coherent fashion because I'm scrambling to find info in pages of notes. My goal is to get all my info for my 5-7 patients on one double-sided sheet of paper. Some nurses have offered to send their "brains" or "cheat sheets" to those of us who are struggling with this problem. I wonder if it would be possible to find a place to post these documents (I know we can't use attachments on this site) somehow on this site or somewhere else, so that we can have a resource. That way people won't have to keep e-mail these documents. Any ideas? And in the meantime, if anyone has a brain they could e-mail, that would help a lot! I have been struggling all morning to come up with one on the computer and can't get a hang of the formatting. Last month I made a checklist of all the forms I need to complete before end of shift on my patients, and it's saved me about thirty minutes work every day. I'm so thankful for all the help I've gotten from these forums. Whenever I feel overwhelmed about my new career, I turn to the site and am so relieved to find that I'm not alone! Suz