Nursing Home Shift Report

Managing a nursing home means keeping accurate, detailed records of every aspect of resident care—from medication rounds to behavioral incidents to vital signs. This Nursing Home Shift Report template gives your care team a clear, structured way to document everything that happens during each shift, ensuring continuity of care and compliance with healthcare regulations.

Whether you're a charge nurse, certified nursing assistant, or shift supervisor, this form captures all the essential information in one place: resident care activities, medication distribution logs, behavioral or medical incidents, vital signs monitoring, dietary intake and any notable observations. Instead of juggling paper logs, clipboards and scattered notes, your team can complete shift reports digitally from any device, with submissions automatically timestamped and stored securely.

Designed for nursing homes, assisted living facilities, senior care communities and long-term care providers, this template helps you maintain consistent documentation standards across all shifts, support seamless handovers between staff, and create a reliable audit trail for families, administrators and regulatory inspectors.

Built on Paperform, this shift report is fully customizable to match your facility's protocols—add custom fields for specific residents, adjust medication tracking sections, or include additional care categories as needed. Connect your submissions to Stepper (stepper.io) to automate shift handover workflows, send incident alerts to supervisors, or sync daily logs into your care management system.

With conditional logic, you can show or hide sections based on shift type (day, evening, night) or incident severity, ensuring staff only see relevant fields. And because Paperform is SOC 2 Type II compliant with robust security controls, your sensitive resident information stays protected while remaining accessible to authorized team members.

Whether you're documenting routine care or responding to urgent situations, this Nursing Home Shift Report template helps your team deliver consistent, compassionate care while maintaining the thorough documentation that families and regulators expect.