What type of report do you like best?

[live4today]

Just curious: Which type of report do you prefer getting and giving at your place of employment:

Do you like walking rounds?

Do you prefer taped report?

Do you prefer the type of report where the offgoing nurses are giving report to the incoming nurses all at once?

The latter one makes for a noisy report. This is the one the unit I work on uses. I can hardly stand it! So, I won't sit where they are giving report. I sit where it's less people or stand up where there is a quiet or halfway quiet place and let the offgoing nurse come to where I am so I can hear report better.

[Tweety, BSN, RN]

I like nurse to nurse, doesn't necessarily have to be walking rounds, because on walking rounds you can't talk about the patient.

Some floors in our hospital as switched to a written format, which is an all inclusive form they fill out, and I'm getting some good feedback about that. Saves a lot of time apparently.

I don't like taped report because it isn't inclusive of all systems all the time and you can't ask a machine questions.

[mattsmom81]

In ICU I like with at least part of report to go on in the pt room, have a chance to eyeball our patient and ask questions. Now with visitors always around and HIPAA, we can rarely do it.

My favorite reports also involve going over the orders, but due to time constraints it isn't always done...and errors are committed because of that. Sometimes I can't get to the charts til midnight, and find things 'missed' then.

[SmilingBluEyes]

Renee dear, they follow suit if they want report. If not, I sail out and tell em check the charts. They get the facts from me; if they choose to interrupt or blow me off, that is up to them. But they have learned, I am out of there at 7:30 unless the floor is blowing up. I set the precendent early on for myself.