Re: self admin of medication

[Delores234]

Please do not use faxed forms that you copy and copy and copy and the result is a very sloppy record.

Use clean, professional looking forms.  Actually YOU DO NOT NEED A FORM.  Briggs has [or will] fax you a sample.  Use the sample and do a narrative note.  I am of the opinion that the reason documentation is not adequate, complete or pertinent is because we are so locked into forms.  If we do not have a form, we cannot document. 

Anyone see the kids movie "A Bugs Life."   Remember when the leaf fell in front of the line of ants they did not know what to do?  Well,  that is what forms do to us, no form, we stop dead in our tracks and do--no documentation.  

A few months ago one of my clients had a nurse  not admit a resident, that arrived before noon, because she could not find an admission packet.

We need to get out of that way of thinking.

Delores

Can someone send me via email a self admin of medications assessment, please? I do not have time for the briggs forms to be mailed and recieved, i am trying to accomplish the tasks of the assessments this afternoon. many thanks!

Delores L. Galias, RN, RHIT

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