Question about charting?

Who are you charting for? My private duty case had a notebook kept for the mother, where the nurses would put a narrative shift summary. I never used this. Otherwise, for my agency cases, I always charted on the agency form the way they wanted it. Most of my cases have been peds and night shift so I encounter a lot of sleeping. I write a blanket statement like the one you mentioned. You kind of have to say something to indicate they are resting comfortably and not in distress. Otherwise it looks like too much of nothing. At one of my other agency cases, though, the nurses would actually write the word "sleeping" and even though the charting instructions were explicit about not saying things like "watching TV", they would chart watching tv and even put down the name of the show! Very unprofessional. I said something about this to the primary nurse and she gave me the reason why they charted like this. She said that all the nurses knew that the family copied the nurses notes and had used them in a successful lawsuit in the past, therefore they made sure that their notes did not state anything useful.