http://scrubsmag.com/nurse-tip-on-how-to-avoid-lawsuits-by-charting/ Fri, 25 May 2012 00:51:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://scrubsmag.com/nurse-tip-on-how-to-avoid-lawsuits-by-charting/#comment-1263 Yasmin Wed, 30 Dec 2009 18:37:34 +0000 http://scrubsmag.com/?p=8138#comment-1263 Chart chart chart to protect yourself! I think depending on the computer system that your hospital uses, some means of charting are actually very efficient in getting information from person to person throughout the days more accurately than by word of mouth at times. Similar to that childhood game, telephone, sometimes information gets skewed from one verbal report to another. Once something is documented, it is set in stone in the chart and all medical personnel have access to that. In an efficient charting system, something that the nurse may forget to pass on in report can be picked up by the incoming resident because it is in the chart. Charting enhances communication but should not act as a sole means but as a cohesive addition to verbal communication. Chart chart chart to protect yourself! I think depending on the computer system that your hospital uses, some means of charting are actually very efficient in getting information from person to person throughout the days more accurately than by word of mouth at times. Similar to that childhood game, telephone, sometimes information gets skewed from one verbal report to another. Once something is documented, it is set in stone in the chart and all medical personnel have access to that. In an efficient charting system, something that the nurse may forget to pass on in report can be picked up by the incoming resident because it is in the chart. Charting enhances communication but should not act as a sole means but as a cohesive addition to verbal communication.

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