Lots of Health Care Professionals this time . . .

This is how I became aware of the importance of communication in health care: When my daughter was younger, she was hospitalized with pnuemonia. I was sitting by her bed, and picked up her chart. It detailed *everything* that had been done, and, I was taken aback to discover, there were even notes about my husband and I staying with her throughout the hospitalization.(I had no idea they were keeping track.) It was very clear to me that the chart was *the way* that oncoming shifts knew what to do and what had been done.