Table 2.

Sample Bedside Narratives

Narrative Types	Text Samples
Flow sheets	“Nausea/constipation/urinary retention from spinal narcotic”
	“very sedated from lorazepam”
	“hallucinations from lortab, MS”
	“edema/wheezing from IVF”
Bar code medication administration comment	“Nausea from cefazolin”
	“urinary retention from MS, spinal narc”
	“constipation from calcium”
ER nursing assessment	“mental status change/hypotension from oxycontin, MS conti{sic}, percocet, and lorazepam”