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Report sheets that fit the way the floor actually runs
Every unit ends up with the same photocopied brain sheet, five generations deep, with someone's handwriting in the margin explaining what a box means. These are clean versions of that. Print one, fill it in during report, shred it at the end of the shift. No account, no email, nothing uploaded: the builder runs entirely inside your browser.
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Patient report sheet
One patient per page. Diagnoses, problems and plan, access, drips, patches, a front-and-back skin map with numbered rows, bowel, diet, I&O, vitals, glucose, what to ask in report, what changed on your shift.
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Brain sheet · 2 patients
Half a page per patient, with boxes big enough to write in: vitals four times with glucose, meds by time, labs, to-do, intake and output, and notes for the next shift.
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Report sheet · 3 patients
A third of the page per patient: vitals three times with glucose, meds by time, labs, to-do, intake and output, and notes for the next shift.
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Clinical worksheet · student
One patient for a clinical day: pathophysiology in two lines, each med with why this patient gets it and what to check first, labs and why they matter, vitals, head to toe, three priority problems, teaching, questions for your instructor.
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New grad sheet · 2 patients
Two patients, plus what to ask at report, who to call on your unit, words to look up and questions for your preceptor. For the first weeks on a new floor.
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CNA & tech handoff
Eight patients on one landscape page, because an aide carries eight and not one. Diet, how they get out of bed, toileting, vitals and sugars, what to track, precautions, and what to tell the nurse about.
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Brain sheet · 4 patients
Your whole assignment on one page, a quarter each, laid out the same in every quarter. Room, diagnosis, allergies, diet, lines, code status, three sets of vitals, meds due, labs, a to-do list and notes.
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Report sheet · 5 patients
Five patient boxes and a sixth for the whole shift: diagnosis, allergies, diet, lines, code status, two sets of vitals, meds by time, to-do, notes.
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Report sheet · 6 patients
Six patients on one page, the same box for each: room, diagnosis, allergies, diet, lines, code status, two sets of vitals, meds by time, to-do and notes.
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Hourly shift timeline
Four patients side by side, one row per hour, so you see what is due at 1000 for everyone at once. Day hours on top, night hours under them, so one sheet works for either shift.
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Charge nurse sheet
Sixteen rooms on one landscape page: who has each patient, code status, isolation, safety, who is coming or going. Under it, breaks and who covers them, admits and discharges, and every call you made.
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Sheets other people built
Layouts nurses made for their own units and sent in. Open one in the builder, change what your floor does differently, print it. Every one was looked at by a human first.
See what people made →Sheet builder
Drag the blocks around, pull a corner to resize, drop what your unit never uses and add what it does. Put your own logo on it. A live counter keeps the whole thing on one page. Save it, or send a coworker a link that opens your exact layout.
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| Sheet | Patients per page | Paper | What is on it |
|---|---|---|---|
| Patient report sheet | 1 | Letter, portrait · 1 page | Hourly vitals row (time, BP, HR, RR, temp, SpO₂, CBG), intake and output, a front-and-back skin map, room for what to ask in report. |
| Brain sheet · 2 patients | 2 | Letter, portrait · 1 page | Half a page per patient: vitals four times with glucose, meds by time, labs, to-do, intake and output, changes this shift, notes. |
| Clinical worksheet · student | 1 | Letter, portrait · 1 page | Pathophysiology, meds with why and what to check, labs and why they matter, vitals, head-to-toe findings, three priority problems with goals and evaluation, teaching, questions. |
| New grad sheet · 2 patients | 2 | Letter, portrait · 1 page | Two simpler patient blocks, a checklist of what to ask at report, who to call, words to look up, questions for your preceptor. |
| CNA & tech handoff | 8 | Letter, landscape · 1 page | One line per patient: room, name and age, diet, out of bed, toileting, vitals, CBG, what to track, precautions, and when to find the nurse now. |
| Report sheet · 3 patients | 3 | Letter, portrait · 1 page | A third of the page per patient: vitals three times with glucose, meds by time, labs, to-do, intake and output, notes. |
| Brain sheet · 4 patients | 4 | Letter, portrait · 1 page | A quarter per patient: room, diagnosis, allergies, diet, activity, lines, code status, three sets of vitals, meds due, labs, to-do, notes. |
| Report sheet · 5 patients | 5 | Letter, portrait · 1 page | Five patient boxes plus one for the whole shift: diagnosis, allergies, diet, lines, code status, two sets of vitals, meds by time, to-do, notes. |
| Report sheet · 6 patients | 6 | Letter, portrait · 1 page | A sixth of the page per patient: room, diagnosis, allergies, diet, lines, code status, two sets of vitals, meds by time, to-do, notes. |
| Hourly shift timeline | 4 | Letter, portrait · 1 page | A column per patient with room, name, code status, allergies, diet, isolation and lines, then one row per hour for day or night, labs pending and what to tell the next shift. |
| Charge nurse sheet | 16 rooms | Letter, landscape · 1 page | One row per room: patient, RN, tech, code status, isolation, safety, admit or discharge. Staff breaks, admits and discharges, and calls made. |
| Sheet builder | You choose | Letter, portrait · 1 page | Pick the blocks your unit actually uses, drag them into order, name it, and print. The page tells you when it stops fitting on one sheet. |
| Sheets other people built | Varies | Letter, portrait · 1 page | Layouts other nurses made in the builder and shared. Open one, change anything, print it as your own. |
All of them are free, need no sign-up, carry no logo, and each ready-made sheet comes as a PDF. Print at 100%. Do not let the print dialog scale to fit, or the lines stop matching the paper.
What is on the sheet, and why
Built around handoff, not charting
The blocks follow the order report is actually given: who the patient is, what brought them in, what is wrong now, what we are doing about it, what is attached to them, and what changed on your shift. Nothing on the sheet asks for anything you would not already be told.
The skin block is deliberately large
Skin is where a missed detail turns into a pressure injury nobody can date. The sheet gives you a front-and-back body outline to mark, a row of stages from DTI to unstageable, and six numbered rows so the mark on the body has somewhere to be described.
One page, measured, not guessed
The layout is checked against a real Letter page: one sheet, ten millimetres of margin on every side, ruled lines drawn as borders so they print even when your browser has background graphics switched off. The builder shows you how many millimetres are left before it spills over.
Nothing on it identifies this site
The printed sheet carries no logo, no address and no branding, so it is safe to carry on the floor and to hand to a coworker. The only line on it that is not yours is the reminder that it is not a medical record and should be shredded at the end of the shift.
It never leaves your device
There is no server behind the builder. Your layout lives in your own browser and in the file or link you choose to share. Your unit logo is read locally and never uploaded. Nothing you type is sent anywhere, which also means you should never type a patient's details into it.
Free, and staying free
Print as many as you want, for yourself or the whole unit. No sign-up, no watermark, no trial. It exists because the show is about this job, and a good brain sheet is more useful to a nurse than another poster.
Questions
What is a brain sheet?
The single page a nurse carries all shift with everything about their patients on it: report, times, lines, what is still pending. Some units call it a brain, some a report sheet, some just “the paper”. It is not a legal record and it does not go in the chart.
Will it print on one page?
Yes, on US Letter at 100% scale. Do not let the print dialog shrink it to fit. If you build your own, the counter at the top tells you before you print whether it still fits.
Can I change it for my unit?
That is what the builder is for. Move blocks, resize them, rename any heading, add your own checkbox rows and tables, and put your unit name or logo at the top.
Can I share the one I made?
Press Copy link in the builder. The whole layout is packed into the web address itself, so whoever opens it gets your exact sheet. No upload, no account, nothing stored on our side.
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