Responsibilities

We have a new medical team. My past two shifts were spent chasing doctors to fix up problems on med charts.

You may have a different way of doing things in the U.S but we have a doctors book. In it we list the patients whose Med charts will run out that day, and list who will need variable doses of meds written up. The day doctors are ignoring this tonight staff have to get the only doctor in the hospital to come to the ward to write med charts.

Is it actually a nursing responsibility to chase doctors to write charts and orders? If a chart runs out and there isn't a new one, who is the incident report about?