Will I be held responsible ?

I agree with the commuter, this does not fall on you because the supervisor should have notified the dayshift nurse via phone email or in person so that documentation would have been entered.

I would probably want more information about a patient "attempting"to wander. Was it something as simple as walking towards an elevator?

I'm guessing incident report requirements vary by facility, where I work an incident report is only used (in regards to elopement) if the resident actually left the facility. Attempts are not the same as actual elopements for us.

Does your facility have any procedures in place for people at risk of elopement? If so, I would think it would be appropriate to implement that procedure. Even if you don't have a formal protocol, there are things you can do to ensure the individual's safety - frequent checks etc...

Update- Now it has been said that the attempted elopement happened at change of shift. I still was not aware of any of it. The ADON wanted me to document a late entry. I told her I don't mind if I knew what to write. I also don't want to document on something I did not follow up on. So if I do document I want to be the one to notify the doc, family , and etc.

Write now there is no documentation and every one is trying to sort this out.

Normally if someone attempts to elope , we notify the doc, family, the state, and etc. We do an incident report and hourly checks.

I just hope it doesn't get ugly.

I wouldn't document anything if you did not witness it. Especially if they want you to document calling the doc, etc, stuff you did not do.

And I'm surprised you'd document an attempt to elope? Unless that means the resident actually made it outside. Maybe I missed this.

I think the supervisor should document being that she seems to be the most aware of the incident and discovered it.

Update- Now it has been said that the attempted elopement happened at change of shift. I still was not aware of any of it. The ADON wanted me to document a late entry. I told her I don't mind if I knew what to write. I also don't want to document on something I did not follow up on. So if I do document I want to be the one to notify the doc, family , and etc.

Write now there is no documentation and every one is trying to sort this out.

Normally if someone attempts to elope , we notify the doc, family, the state, and etc. We do an incident report and hourly checks.

I just hope it doesn't get ugly.

You just cannot report on something you had NO knowledge or was witness to. End of story. This falls squarely on your supervisors shoulders.

You can only document on things you observed personally or subjective data using quotation marks as what the patient stated since none of that happened then you can not document then if u do u have falsified medical records another point did u make rounds as u were coming down the hall bcz people will pass the buck on you was this mentioned in report just curious as to hand off and change of shift report done there another reason to check to make sure u do rounds before u accept keys and responsibility God Bless Make the supervisor fill out the report this could turn into doozy she seems to have more info than u do

I agree, what you would document would be considered "hearsay"..the only thing you could document would be something like "so and so reported to this nurse the mrs blank was seen walking down the hall and out the door..blah blah" .... but you did not witness anything so how can you document? makes NO sense. She could be telling you anything. I am sorry but I would flat out refuse. What is the problem with her documenting?