Worried about my charting-poor choice of words?

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So I discharged my patient home yesterday...he had a soft stool..I charted it as loose..I know this sounds silly but now Iam worried. Maybe I should have mentioned this to the discharging MD..I should have charted it as soft..now I worry that if the patient does come down with some sort of diarhea that is nosocomial I can be blamed fo rcharting s"loose stool" and not calling the MD...should I be worried? Man..sometimes I feel like I just can't do the right thing in nursing!!

Was he on stool softeners? Maybe what you saw was totally expected and normal. Anyway, your patient pooped! Yay! At least you know you didn't send him home constipated. Seriously, I doubt it was anything to worry about.

So I discharged my patient home yesterday...he had a soft stool..I charted it as loose..I know this sounds silly but now Iam worried. Maybe I should have mentioned this to the discharging MD..I should have charted it as soft..now I worry that if the patient does come down with some sort of diarhea that is nosocomial I can be blamed fo rcharting s"loose stool" and not calling the MD...should I be worried? Man..sometimes I feel like I just can't do the right thing in nursing!!
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