Nurses' notes on nursing home patients: are they effective?
The notes written by nurses in a level-III nursing home were reviewed in detail. They were found to be neither pertinent nor meaningful in most cases. The daily writing of these notes required a large percentage of the nurses' time but they were seldom, if ever, read by physicians. An alternate system of writing notes on a weekly basis is suggested.
D003365:Costs and Cost Analysis; D004650:Employee Performance Appraisal; D006801:Humans; D009735:Nursing Homes; D009737:Nursing Records / Q000592:standards