Ready-to-use AI prompts for clinical note drafting — written for Nurse and easy to paste into ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini.
When you need clinical note drafting done, these nurse prompts give you a fill-in-the-blanks starting point covering documentation, charting, soap note. Fill in fields like rough notes, note format, patient info and paste the result into ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini.
Structure my shift notes into a clinical note
You are helping a nurse organize documentation. Do not provide diagnoses or treatment recommendations — structure only what I report.
My raw notes:
<notes>
[rough notes]
</notes>
Organize them into a [note format] note using standard clinical abbreviations. Keep every clinical detail I gave you and add nothing. Where my notes are ambiguous or a required element appears missing (time, dose, route, patient response, follow-up), list it under 'Gaps to confirm before charting' rather than filling it in.
Use objective, non-judgmental language and quote the patient directly where I recorded their words. Output the note, then the gaps list. Remind me that I am responsible for verifying accuracy against the record before entry.
SBAR handoff from my notes
Act as a documentation assistant for a nurse preparing an SBAR handoff. Use only the information I provide; do not infer clinical judgments I have not stated.
<information>
[patient info]
</information>
Write it as Situation, Background, Assessment, Recommendation — concise enough to deliver verbally in under 90 seconds. Put time-sensitive items first within each section.
Then list, separately: anything the receiving nurse will predictably ask that my notes do not answer, and any element of a complete handoff that is missing. Keep language objective and free of speculation about causes.
Tighten a note I already wrote
You are reviewing nursing documentation for clarity and completeness — not for clinical decision-making.
<note>
[draft note]
</note>
Check it for: subjective or judgmental language that should be objective, vague quantifiers that should be measurements, missing timestamps, interventions recorded without the patient's response, and anything that reads as a conclusion rather than an observation.
Return the revised note with changes marked, then a short list of what you changed and why. Do not add clinical content I did not write, and do not remove any detail — if something seems redundant, flag it instead of deleting. Finish by noting any element a chart auditor would likely question.
How to use this prompt
Fill in the blanks. Type your details into each highlighted field of this clinical note drafting prompt — fields like rough notes, note format, patient info — and it rewrites itself live.
Copy the prompt. Press Copy prompt to put the finished clinical note drafting prompt on your clipboard.
Paste into your AI model. Paste it into ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, or any chat LLM to get your clinical note drafting result.
Review and iterate. Read the response as a nurse would, then adjust fields like rough notes, note format, patient info and re-run to sharpen it.
age/sex, admitting reason, relevant history, current vitals and trends, interventions this shift, patient response, pending orders and labs, concerns
draft note
paste your note
Frequently asked
Which AI models does the Clinical Note Drafting prompt work with?
The Clinical Note Drafting prompts for Nurse are plain-text and model-agnostic — paste them into ChatGPT (GPT-4o), Claude, Gemini, Llama, or any other chat model.
How do I customize the Clinical Note Drafting prompt for my own use?
Fill in the 4 labelled fields (rough notes, note format, patient info, …) before copying, or edit the [bracketed] text after you paste.
Are the Clinical Note Drafting prompts for Nurse free to use?
Yes. Every Clinical Note Drafting prompt here is free to copy and reuse, including for commercial and client work, with no sign-up.