Topics About 'Brain Sheets'.

Hi all, I am a RN Student who is looking for a great form to use as my brain. So I am able to track all my information neatly and accurately and be able to read off my report orderly. Thanks for the help.....

I was recently hired onto a med/surg floor and I'm currently going through orientation. Being a new grad, I feel completely overwhelmed and lost so I would like to prepare myself as much as possible. Does anyone have a shift report sheet that they wo...

Hey fellow nurses! So I am a total newbie nurse in ICU. Still on orientation and I’m on a mission to find a brain sheet to help organize my day. Which ones do you all use?

OK, so I have read that there are different ways to organize your "brains" and I believe this means your patient information that you've received on report. I have never heard it referred to this way on the floor though. Anyway, it would be great to ...

Ok. I just completed my first day on the floor. I feel horrible, there was no structure to the day, I was just thrown out there to care for five patients with my preceptor. I know my organizational skills are severely lacking because I have never car...

Hello! I'm a brand new nurse about to start working on a med/surg tele floor and I want to start off as organized as possible! I need help with two things (well probably a million but just two for this post). I would love some help from you, the more...

Trying to organize myself. Wondering if anyone wants to share their report sheet!! Thanks

So I'm trying to create my own brain sheet for the med/surg floor that I'm working on. When I look at different examples they have diagrams on their sheet like an X or a weird fishbone looking thing. What are these diagrams for? My friend said it was...

HI! I'm a student nurse senior year and an extern on a busy medical floor. I'm having a difficult time finding some sort of organization chart that I can use to keep my patient assessments, notes, med times, etc, handy. If anyone has any ideas Id app...

Tomorrow is my third day of orientation and I want to show them I can be a great nurse even though I am very new. How do you experienced nurses remember at what time all patients were sitting, out of bed, and all information and assessments that...

Hello. I am a new grad looking for a way to stay organized. I want to see how your Organization/ "Brain" sheet is set up. Sharing this will be of great help. Also any checklist or documentation cheatsheets you may have. How to give report and quest...

Happy New Year allnurses! I will be starting my new job in a 23 hour observation unit and was wondering if anyone had a good brain sheet or any type of organizational tips I could use to help me with the whole process. I'm very excited and nervous of...

Thanks to the awesome administrators on this site, I can now upload .xls files (ie. my NICU brain sheet) directly to posts within threads. This eliminates the need for using outside storage sites or giving me your email address. This brain is specifi...

Nursing brain sheets go by many names. They are called report sheets, security blankets, flowcharts, to-do lists and everything in between. What are they exactly? Nursing brain sheets are those papers that have all of the information on your patient....

I’m a new grad who just accepted a L&D position! I’m so excited and trying to prepare as best I can. In nursing school, brain sheets were my lifeline. I was wondering if anybody has an L&D brain sheet that they’d like to share or any organiza...

Hi guys, I've been a nurse for 1.5yrs on tele, and I just got hired in the ED, will be starting next month! I'm aware it's not common for ER nurses to use brain sheets, BUT what did you guys use as newbies? There's going to be a lot thrown at me in ...

Hi all, I just joined the MICU and was wondering if anyone would share their nursing report sheets/brain sheets to help me get and stay organized during my shift? Thanks!

In the book "Training Wheels for Nurses," the author mentions "brains" or "cheat sheets" of experienced nurses. When I was in school, I always wondered how nurses managed to organize their shift and remember who got what meds or treatments when. Now ...

Hello. I want to see how your Organization/Brain sheet is set up to get ideas before I make my own. Sharing this will be of great help.

I learned the term "Brain Sheet" from this website and I believe it's a piece of paper where we keep important quick reference patient information. At Wrongway Regional Medical Center, we use something we merely call a "Patient List". On this sheet, ...

I'll be returning to hospital nursing soon and am in search of the best Brain Sheets to try out. I've searched online and some come with a starter pack, but that costs quite a bit and I don't want to buy it unless I know it's what will work for me. W...

Hey friends, I am in an LPN2RN program, and my preceptorship is in an ED, and I was hoping to get a few of your "brain sheets" to either use or create my own based on them. By brain sheets, I mean the sheets you basically write the patient's inf...