Report process

I work in a 36 bed facility. Each nurse gives report to oncoming nurse that is assigned patients. The assignment from shift to *** can vary slightly so you may get report from 2 nurses or even 3+ maybe depending on who did an admission that got placed in your assigned territory.

@adnrnstudent what are some of your expectations for the day per patient?

I work on an acute psych floor with 30 beds, and patients each have a meditech file with all their pertinent info. We (RNs and MHTs) update the shift's changes 1. in a nursing note in meditech, not Word, and 2. in a physical binder with a page for each patient. This Shift Book is used when the charge nurse gives report to entire staff, but can also be brought to treatment team meetings to give a quick update to the docs, social workers, etc. If the nurse/tech is in a hurry, they can print out their nursing note and tape it into the shift book. We also print out a census sheet each day with name, diagnosis, age, room number, etc, of each patient, with a box for note taking. Staff uses the census sheet to take notes during report and during the shift as reference. Hope this helps.

On ‎11‎/‎7‎/‎2019 at 7:33 PM, maggie0 said:

I work on an acute psych floor with 30 beds, and patients each have a meditech file with all their pertinent info. We (RNs and MHTs) update the shift's changes 1. in a nursing note in meditech, not Word, and 2. in a physical binder with a page for each patient. This Shift Book is used when the charge nurse gives report to entire staff, but can also be brought to treatment team meetings to give a quick update to the docs, social workers, etc. If the nurse/tech is in a hurry, they can print out their nursing note and tape it into the shift book. We also print out a census sheet each day with name, diagnosis, age, room number, etc, of each patient, with a box for note taking. Staff uses the census sheet to take notes during report and during the shift as reference. Hope this helps.

Thanks for your feedback!

I work in a 25 bed locked acute unit. We have a group report at the start of the shift with all the oncoming nurses/techs and charge RN. The charge RN goes over the highlights of the unit, any behavioral issues etc to be aware of, upcoming discharges, new admits, safety issues, then we all get nurse to nurse report on our patients from the off-going nurse.