[Antoinette]

Communication is important between nurse and patient but also just as important between nurse to nurse. For example, one situation happened where a nurse was covering me for break. She gave a pain medication to a patient but the documentation did not record on the eMAR. I wasn’t aware on return to the floor that this med had been removed and so I almost gave the patient another dose of the narcotic. Even though the nurse should have mentioned on report that she gave the pain med. I have learned to writer down anything I have done on my sheet so I don’t forget when giving report back to my buddy nurse.