Nursing narrative note examples for home health

These nursing narrative note examples are 10 snippets for home health nurses: four full narratives and six shorter snippets for the sentences a narrative repeats. Type a shortcut wherever you chart and the narrative appears, then pick findings from drop-down menus and add details in text boxes.

What's included:

Four narrative nursing note templates

• Skilled nursing narrative (/narr) in the order reviewers read it, from what the patient reports to the response, homebound status and the plan for next visit
• Change in condition narrative (/event) in the order it happened: the finding, the assessment, the action, the physician call with the order read back
• Head-to-toe assessment narrative (/h2t), a nursing narrative note template by system: a complete normal finding in each drop-down menu, a text box when a system is abnormal
• Living situation and hazards narrative (/living): who the patient lives with, caregiver availability, hazards found, measures agreed and equipment

Six shorter snippets for commonly typed sentences

• Opener (/arrived) and no change since the last visit (/nochange)
• Discharge planning line (/dischargeplan)
• Medication update (/medupdate) with what changed and who ordered it
• Late entry line (/lateentry)
• Care coordination line (/coord)

Who it's for

RNs and LPNs writing skilled nursing narratives in home health, in any EHR: the text goes wherever your cursor is.

Start in two minutes

Use /narr after your next visit. Then type /dischargeplan the next time you chart the discharge plan, change the wording to your own, and save one more sentence you type often as a snippet. A narrative takes minutes at the curb, not an hour after dinner.