Ending your shift

What you’ll do

Tap End Shift, rate how your patients were to care for, rate yourself on fulfillment and energy, leave optional feedback, and watch Synapse clear your deck. The whole flow is under a minute.

Why nurses use this

Hour 11 is when you finally know whether it was a good shift. Hour 13, in your car in the parking garage, is when you’ve already forgotten. End-of-shift ratings catch that signal in the only moment it’s honest, and they’re what your resilience chart is made of. A few taps now is what makes the trend real in two months.

How to get there

• Settings → End Shift. The deliberate path from the main settings surface.
• Welcome screen → End Shift. If you’ve returned to Welcome, End Shift is the action there too.

End Shift is gated on an active shift. If you haven’t tapped Start Shift, there’s nothing to end.

Step-by-step

1. Tap End Shift. Synapse enters the end-of-shift flow and walks you through the ratings before it closes the shift window.

2. Patient ratings. Two questions about the patients you cared for this shift:

   • Ease: how easy was it caring for your patients?
   • Gratitude: how gratifying was it caring for your patients?

   Tap a smiley for each. You can’t continue until both are rated.

3. Post-shift ratings. Two questions about you:

   • Fulfillment: how fulfilled do you feel?
   • Energy: how’s your energy level now?

   Tap a smiley for each.

4. Optional feedback. A free-text “anything else?” field. Use it for the things the smileys don’t capture. The specific moment that made the shift, the thing you want to remember, the systems issue you want to flag to yourself later.

5. Submit. Synapse thanks you by name and runs the tally.

6. The tally runs. Patients and tasks from this shift’s window are counted into your shift record. If your specialty is Long-Term Care, the deck stays. You have continuity beyond a single shift. For everyone else, the deck clears.

7. You land back on Welcome. Ready for next shift whenever you want to start it.

Tips from the floor

• Rate where you actually are. A “3 / 5” shift logged as a “5 / 5” because rating it lower felt unfair leaves you blind to a real trend.
• Use the feedback field for one specific thing. “Bed 4 family was the hardest part.” “Pulled off lunch again.” “Code in 11A. Drained me.” That sentence is what you’ll re-read in six months when you wonder why you remember this shift.
• End shift before you walk to your car. Data quality is highest in the first 10 minutes after report. Past 30 minutes you’re filtering through “I just want to go home.”
• Charting eats a big chunk of every shift. End-of-shift rating is the smallest part of that bucket. And the only part you do for yourself.
• Generate handoff QRs before you tap End Shift. Walk through your patients in the order you’ll report on them and generate a QR for each while the deck is still live. Then end the shift.
• Long-Term Care nurses don’t lose the deck. If your specialty is set to LTC, end-of-shift completes the tally without clearing patients. Patients are continuity, not per-shift.
• Ratings drive your resilience picture. See burnout and resilience for what happens with this data.

Common questions

What if I’m too tired to rate? Tap quickly. Each row is five smiley faces. Pick the one that’s closest to where you are, move on. Well under a minute. Then go home.

What happens to my patients after end-of-shift? They move to Previous (unless you’re on LTC). You can view them in Patients chip menu → Previous, and re-add one to a new shift from there.

What happens to my tasks? Tasks from the shift window are counted in the tally, and the active deck clears for the next shift.

Can I edit my ratings after I submit? Not currently. The submission is final.

Does Synapse use my ratings for anything besides my charts? Your ratings power your own resilience picture and your Wrapped. For how data is handled, see the privacy policy.

Where this fits in your shift

End-of-shift is the closing bracket on a shift window. The longitudinal view of all the ratings you’ve ever given lives in burnout and resilience. The year-end keepsake version lives in your Wrapped. And the next time you open Synapse, you’re back on Welcome.