nurse

What This Skill Does

Nursing is the most documentation-heavy profession in healthcare. For every hour of direct patient care, nurses spend nearly equal time on notes, handovers, care plans, incident reports, and administrative tasks. This is a burden that exists to protect patients, yet often consumes the time and attention that should be focused on their direct care. The Nurse skill for OpenClaw is designed to bridge this gap. It acts as an intelligent clinical documentation partner, processing complex clinical data into structured, professional, and defensible formats. Whether you are performing a complex shift-to-shift handover, drafting a care plan, or managing incident reports, this skill ensures accuracy and compliance while significantly reducing the cognitive load on frontline workers. It utilizes industry-standard frameworks like ISBAR for handovers, SOAP for progress notes, and PQRST for pain assessment, ensuring that the generated text adheres to established nursing best practices.

Installation

To integrate the Nurse skill into your OpenClaw environment, execute the following command in your terminal:

clawhub install openclaw/skills/skills/btcagentic/nurse

This will pull the latest version from the btcagentic repository, ensuring you have access to the most recent clinical documentation templates and intelligence frameworks.

Use Cases

• Shift Handovers: Rapidly structure patient data into ISBAR format for concise and safe team communication.
• Clinical Notes: Convert shorthand observations into formal, audit-ready SOAP notes.
• Care Planning: Generate individualized care plans based on specific patient assessments, goals, and nursing interventions.
• Difficult Communication: Draft compassionate and clear explanations for patients or families regarding discharge instructions or treatment options.
• Incident Reporting: Provide objective, non-punitive documentation for workplace incidents, helping to meet safety and facility standards.

Example Prompts

1. "I need to handover for Bed 4, he is a 72-year-old post-op hip replacement with stable obs, please draft an ISBAR."
2. "Help me document this progress note: patient was agitated, pacing the hallway at 0200, refused PRN meds, redirection unsuccessful."
3. "Write a care plan for a patient with stage 2 sacral pressure injury including frequency of turns and nutrition goals."

Tips & Limitations

• Clinical Accuracy: Always review the generated documentation before signing off in the Electronic Medical Record (EMR). This tool is a support system; clinical judgment remains the responsibility of the registered practitioner.
• Context is King: The more specific you are with your observations (e.g., vitals, specific behaviors), the more precise the output will be.
• Privacy Note: Ensure that you do not include identifiable Patient Health Information (PHI) unless your specific OpenClaw implementation is configured for secure, compliant handling of sensitive health data.