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Originally Posted by starkind
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Keep doing it. You're getting hazed some. Nurses always are behind on charting. It's an industry problem ever since rules n puters. Fight 2 make it better if and where you can do something truly skillfully and effectively.
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Probably depends on where you work
There are certain things I must have charted about the clients I see by the end of shift, even if that means staying 4+ hours over. Luckily for non-pool full time employees, some parts of the chart can be rolled to the next day. It used to be to the end of the week, but that got rolled back due liability concerns. If something happens to that client before the end of the week, that chart is frozen to prevent any changes while the incident is investigated. Therefore, it is a liability issue if a chart was frozen due to an IAD (incident, accident, death) while it was blank
Speaking of IAD’s, each one you witness or even hear about, gets a form that gets sent to the state. In fact the state or quality control continues to create and pile on new forms all the time. So you put some info in the medical chart, then repeat that same info in 2-3 different forms sometimes. Redundant as hell…
And of course your chart will be gone over by quality control and then later possibly randomly audited and gone over in supervision. So despite being over shift by potentially hours and in a rush to get home so your night isn’t ruined, don’t make any mistakes…