Standardized report sheet

[nlindsey5]

I work in an ICU, management has decided that all ICU nurses need to use the same standardized report sheet. This is mandatory. All report sheets are to be turned in and a new one started every shift and filled out completely. Is anyone else out there dealing with this? We are being told that its nation wide and is connected to HCAPS.

[dream'n, BSN, RN]

It's BS. Every nurse has their own particular way of keeping track of things; a 'brain' sheet for one isn't the same 'brain' sheet for another. Our management tried out this little tactic you are talking about. It went over like a lead balloon. Everyone still used their individualized 'brain' sheet and at the end of the shift transferred all the information to the report form like management wanted. All it did was add an extra nursing duty and eat into the nurses' already packed schedule.

Another issue is that many times the nurses' didn't have the time to update this ridiculous report sheet and it never had the correct information.

[caffeinatednurse, BSN, RN]

They've been doing this for several years on med surg floors at the hospital I used to worked at. "Hand off sheets" is what they called it - ha! They don't have enough room for even 50% of what the RN needs to know when giving them report. We all used our own brain sheets & then just transferred it at the end of the shift. I still ended up giving report from my own brain sheet, too. It's just more paperwork for RNs.

Oh, and they were always night shifts responsibility to update & create new ones. Then I would hear about it from day shift because the info wasn't updated enough for 9:30 grand rounds. One big headache!

[martymoose, BSN, RN]

but I thought we were all supposed to be doing face to face bedside report???????