Presenting Change
Since completing this project, I learned a lot about the importance of accurate documentation of intake and output, especially for cardiac patients. I thought a lot about different barriers and situations that nurses can run into throughout their shift that could cause inaccurate documentation of intake and output. Barriers such as people bringing drinks to patients without documenting, patients using the restroom without notifying the nurse or forgetting how much fluid a patient got when sitting down to document it. As a team we thought about…
