Poetic Tides Through Time

If you didn't document it, you didn't do it

daily patient care
shapes our burgeoning nursing
documentation

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Entry: April 3, 2017
Prompt: Documentation
For: Dew Drop Inn Poetry Workshop
Form: Senryu is a Japanese poem similar in structure to haiku,
but more concerned with human nature, and is often
humorous or satiric -- usually in three lines of 17 syllables.
Poetry Forms: http://www.shadowpoetry.com/resources/haiku/haiku.html
Line Structure: Has a 5-7-5 syllabic structure

  Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.~~Robert Frost


Commentary ▼

         So sorry to change horses in mid-day, but….my poem is actually a Senyru, not a Haiku. I have revised my poem after receiving feedback and revised the form information. Nursing's documentation is really driven by patient needs and patient care that is provided. The nursing note is a legal document that is evidence of the care that the patient receives. These days, with the advent of the electronic health record (EHR), it is easier for nurses to document and through this mechanism, we can capture and quantify the work we do that constitutes the profession of nursing. The primary focus, however, is still competent nursing care. I wanted to poem to reflect this. But the axiom still holds true...