Yet another workplace rant. As of yesterday my supervisor dropped the bomb on us stating nurses caring for patients admitted from the ED are no longer required to give report. Instead the patients will be sent up with a form. I have no idea what the form will have on it, im guess sort of like a ipass sheet or sbar. If any information is missing the nurse will have to look for it in the chart. Not to mention having a hard time reading other people hand writing.
In certain situation such as CIWA & sepsis report is required but the criteria for it is not yet known.
However my concern is that patients transferred to the unit unstable resulting in unnecessary RRT’s. (I cant tell you how many times the ED attempted to send up pts with a bp over 200 or bs less than 60 without an intervention or even without meds listed in the mar). Also we many not have enough time too look up the patients chart especially if its a busy day. Or the form will be either lost in transport or sent up uncompleted. Also the ED nurses don’t always chart important patient information.
I know that as I nurse I have to read my patients chart regardless.
How would you handle this? What are your thoughts?
I think their goal is to get the patients to the units much faster by eliminating time used to give report. Prior to this they weren’t allow to send patient without calling first.
Whats is your companies policy on receiving and giving report?
