Third Week ~~ December 17-21, 2012

      This week was very interesting, because I experienced to audit some units of nurses with my boss. The first thing that we did was to gather all the tools that we are going to used. That is why we have the nutrition risk screening, multidisciplinary initial assessment database and functional assessment record, this are the tools that we're going to use for auditing. Before we went to the different units of nurses, I asked my boss if he would let me take some pictures while auditing, but sad to say he didn't let me, that's why I just take a pictures of the units after auditing. The first unit that we audited was the orthopedic care unit, when we went to the unit it seems that most of the nurses were surprised of our arrival. Upon our arrival, the nurses gave us their census; they have 26 patients and out of the 26 patient we need to audit five patients charts randomly. The orthopedic care unit did not have a perfect rating, because they did not comply with the needed requirements.
       The next unit was the pulmonary care unit, this unit was rated with a perfect rating because the nurse manager of this unit have a tool by herself in checking the patients charts, so if ever there is an audit at their unit they are ready and confident that they are going to have the perfect rating.
I just observed that in auditing even if it’s exciting to do, still it is not as easy as what I have expected. By doing this, we can see the nurses’ output are performed properly or not.