Category Archives: Documentation and Nursing Notes
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A Comparison of Multicolored Pens
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Cons of a Standardized Brain
When the management on my hospital floor decided to have a standardized nurse’s brain for everyone, this began with a mixed set of res [...]
Welcome to the Language of Medical Abbreviations
The nursing school brought about a new language and a new way to write this new language. Several words I heard before ambulation, and void [...]
3 Reasons why brain sheets are great
A brain sheet, I consider it an essential tool for each shift I work. I made the original and continued to make small changes to the brain s [...]
Tips and Tricks to Writing Notes Part 1
I never in my life had taken more notes in a lecture or from reading than in Nursing School. Each class, each semester ended with two 2.5 [...]
What is SBAR?
Whether you are a student at post-clinical meetings or a nurse speaking to a physician, I bet some report necessary. The template used the m [...]
DIY Brain Sheet
Brain sheets are great tools that can be used by the nursing student or the nurse. Most nurses have their own method of keeping notes on pat [...]
4 Tips on nursing notes and documentation for the new nurse
Documentation, not only communicates to other healthcare providers but it also paints a picture of the patient in ways that an assess [...]