Can I use this if I work for a hospital that uses Epic?

Not on your own decision, and this is the most important thing on this page. When you are employed, the hospital is the covered entity and the record is theirs, so introducing any scribe that hears patient information is their call, made through their own security review and their own BAA. Signing up with a personal card does not make that lawful and it can put your job at risk. Who can sign up directly: nurse practitioners who own their panel, independent and private duty nurses, and small home health agencies. If you work on a unit and you want this, the useful move is to take it to your nurse manager or informatics team rather than to your credit card.

Do I need consent to record at the bedside?

Yes, and the bedside makes it harder than a consulting room. A microphone in a semi-private room can pick up the patient in the next bed, their visitors and other staff, and none of those people agreed to anything. Several states require every party to a conversation to consent, among them California, Washington, Illinois, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Maryland and Florida. On top of that your employer's policy governs recording on the unit regardless of state law. The practical route is to dictate after you leave the room, which is how most nurses use it anyway, since that is when you have a free hand. None of this is legal advice.

Can ClinicFrame document a whole nursing shift?

Yes. Dictate entries as the shift moves, and ClinicFrame keeps the timing attached to each assessment, intervention, medication, and response. It supports several patients while keeping each patient's documentation separate.

Does it write a handoff summary?

ClinicFrame drafts a handoff from the patient information you provide, including current status, recent changes, pending work, and follow-up items. Review the handoff against the chart before sharing it with the next clinician.

Does it work for home health visits without good signal?

ClinicFrame requires a working connection to process a session. For home health visits, capture the encounter when connectivity allows or dictate your findings afterward. Review the transcript before generating the note.

Can nurse practitioners use it for full visit notes?

Yes. NPs carry their own panel and document to a full clinical standard, so the note comes in SOAP or your own template and holds the assessment and the prescribing decision together. The BAA comes with your own account, with no group contract required.

Does it help with care plans, or only progress notes?

Care plan updates are one of the supported documents: goals, interventions and evaluation, written from what changed during the shift. That is the part most likely to be carried forward unchanged from admission, which is exactly what a surveyor looks for.

Is it HIPAA compliant for nursing documentation?

ClinicFrame runs on HIPAA-compliant infrastructure, and a BAA is included with every account. ClinicFrame processes session audio and discards it. Patient content is not used to train AI models.

Will it replace nursing judgement?

No, and it is not built to. It records what you assessed, what you did and how the patient responded. The assessment and the clinical decision remain yours, and you review and sign every entry the same as one you typed.

Does it work in long-term care where notes repeat daily?

Daily documentation over months is where notes drift into identical paragraphs, and that is a real risk for justifying a level of care. Each note is generated from that shift, so what changed since the previous entry stays visible instead of being carried forward.

AI Nursing Notes and Charting

Twelve hours of care, charted in the last sixty minutes.

Documentation loses every time it competes with a patient, so it stacks up behind the work and lands at the end of the shift. By then the first hour is the hardest to remember, and the last sixty minutes stop being the last: they run past the end of your shift, on your own time, until the charting is done.

Keep the record current across the shift

Keep every patient record separate

HIPAA compliant

Encryption in transit and at rest, access controls and audit logs, on infrastructure built for protected health information.

BAA included with your account

A Business Associate Agreement is included with your account, including the free trial. Complete the agreement before entering patient information.

Visit audio is discarded

Visit audio is processed and discarded. Your account retains the transcript, notes, and patient information used in your documentation workflow.

Your patients stay out of training

Your patients’ information is not used to train AI models. The agreement with ClinicFrame describes the commitments for handling patient content.

Document the nursing work you perform

An NP visit, home health assessment, and shift handoff require different records. ClinicFrame structures the information you provide for each one.

Built for: NP, APRN in clinic
Why it is for you: You carry your own panel and you document to a full clinical standard, often with less support than a physician in the same building.
What changes: Full visit notes in SOAP or your own template
The prescribing decision documented alongside the assessment
A signed BAA on your own account, without a group contract
How we differ: NP documentation carries clinical and prescribing weight at once. A tool that treats it as a shortened physician note misses half of it.Compare AI scribes for nurses and NPs

Built for: Visiting nurses
Why it is for you: You document in a car between houses, often without reliable signal, and the visit note has to document why the visit was needed.
What changes: Dictation right after the visit, in the car, before the next address
Wound, vitals and medication reconciliation captured as described
Notes that survive a spotty connection instead of vanishing
How we differ: Home health is the least seated work in nursing. The documentation has to happen where the nurse is, which is rarely at a desk.See how notes are exported

Built for: Concierge, home infusion, 1099 contractor
Why it is for you: You are the practice. Nobody hands you an EHR, nobody signs a BAA for you, and the documentation is still yours to defend.
What changes: A signed BAA on your own account, without an employer in the middle
Visit notes dictated in the car before the next address
Your own record, portable between the families and agencies you contract with
How we differ: Every other tool in nursing assumes an institution behind you. This is the one segment of nursing that buys software directly, and it is the one nobody writes for.See how editing and exporting works

Built for: Skilled nursing facilities
Why it is for you: Residents are documented daily for months, and the record has to show change over time or the care level cannot be justified.
What changes: Daily notes that stay specific instead of drifting into copy-paste
Change from the previous entry made visible
Care plan updates written from what actually changed
How we differ: Months of daily entries is where documentation collapses into identical paragraphs. A note generated from each shift keeps the detail that shows progression.See how the note is built

Built for: RN, floor and unit nursing
Why it is for you: Charting stacks up behind patient care all shift and lands in the last hour, when your memory of the first hour is thinnest.
What changes: Notes dictated as the shift goes, not reconstructed at the end of it
Assessments recorded when you did them, with the timing intact
Less overtime spent finishing documentation after handoff
How we differ: ClinicFrame fits a running shift with several patients and entries, while keeping each patient's documentation separate.See how dictation works

Built for: Behavioral health units
Why it is for you: Behavioral observation, de-escalation and risk are the substance of the note, and they are the hardest things to write from memory hours later.
What changes: Behavioral observations recorded with the timing intact
De-escalation and interventions documented as they happened
Risk documented as separate items rather than one paragraph
How we differ: In behavioral health the sequence matters: what happened, what you did, how the patient responded. Written later, the sequence is the first thing lost.See the mental status exam template

Built for: OR, PACU, endoscopy
Why it is for you: Timed entries, counts and handoffs, with almost no opportunity to sit down and type any of it.
What changes: Timed entries dictated in the moment
Handoff to PACU documented from what was actually communicated
Post-procedure instructions recorded as delivered
How we differ: Procedural nursing runs on timing. A note written afterwards approximates the timeline; a note dictated in the moment records it.See session types

Built for: School nurses, employee health
Why it is for you: High volume of short encounters, most of which still need a record, and often you are the only clinician in the building.
What changes: Short encounters documented in seconds, not minutes
Consistent records across a high-volume day
Parent and employer communication drafted from the encounter
How we differ: Forty two-minute encounters produce more documentation than four one-hour visits. The friction per note is what decides whether the record gets written at all.See custom templates

Built for: Teaching and onboarding
Why it is for you: You document your own patients and you review a student's charting, which means twice the reading and twice the correcting.
What changes: One shared template so students learn the same structure
Consistent notes to review instead of a different format per learner
Time back from correcting structure to teach clinical reasoning
How we differ: Teaching documentation is mostly correcting structure. If the structure is generated consistently, the teaching moves to the reasoning.See how editing and exporting works

Build a custom template when your nursing workflow requires different sections or instructions.

The three documents a shift produces that a clinic visit does not

Nursing documentation is not one note per encounter. It is a running record across a shift, and it ends in a handoff that another nurse depends on.

Shift notes

Entries across a full shift for several patients, including assessments, interventions, medications, responses, and the time of each event.

What comes backTimed entries per patient, in your unit's structure, ready to review before handoff.

SBAR handoff

What the next nurse needs in two minutes: current status, what changed this shift, what is pending and what to watch for. Built from the shift's own entries.

What comes backA handoff summary with status, changes, pending items and watch points.

Care plan updates

Goals, interventions and evaluation, updated from what actually happened rather than carried forward unchanged from admission.

What comes backUpdated goals and interventions with the evaluation written from this shift.

From what you dictated to what the next nurse reads

An SBAR handoff for one patient, drafted from a twelve-hour shift. The entries were dictated as the shift went, not reconstructed at the end of it.

This is how it transcribes

Illustrative example. No real patient data. The scribe records what you assessed and stated; it does not assess the patient and it does not replace nursing judgement. You review every entry before it goes in the chart.

AI nursing notes and shift charting

Twelve hours of care, charted in the last sixty minutes.

Keep the record current across the shift

Keep every patient record separate

HIPAA compliant

BAA included with your account

Visit audio is discarded

Your patients stay out of training

Document the nursing work you perform

Nurse practitioners

Home health nursing

Private duty and independent nursing

Long-term care and SNF

Inpatient and med-surg nursing

Psychiatric nursing

Perioperative and procedural nursing

School and occupational health

Nurse educators and preceptors