Just learned Florence Nightingale used polar area charts to argue for hospital reforms - stats queen. I’ve started sketching a tiny “wheel” for my shift census to see who I haven’t rounded on; got any favorite nerdy nursing trivia like that?
SBAR came from the U.S. Navy’s nuclear submarine program and was adapted for healthcare handoffs by folks at Kaiser/IHI - nerdy crossover that stuck. Your wheel sounds neat; do you shade each slice as you round or use colors for last-contact time to spot gaps fast?
That tiny wheel’s genius — shade each wedge by time-since-last-round and slap a star on fall-risk pts so your next pass picks itself. Quick one: do you already color-code it? Nerdy trivia: APGAR was backronymmed after Virginia Apgar’s name (Appearance, Pulse, Grimace, Activity, Respiration).
@OP I’d add tiny tick marks at 2‑hr intervals around each slice and pencil a dot when you’ve rounded so it reads like an orbit of who’s due next, and I’d keep PHI off the page. Nerdy tidbit: the APGAR score is a backronym from Virginia Apgar’s name — Appearance, Pulse, Grimace, Activity, Respiration; I can share a simple printable wheel template if you want.