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Treat DD Form 2551 as Department-level, which changes how you look for it. Title: DD Form 2551, Workload Management System for Nursing - General Worksheet, February 1992. Function: Workload Management System for Nursing - General Worksheet. Because the number carries DD rather than a service prefix, the same edition covers all military departments and the defense agencies at once. Nobody issues a Navy copy or an Air Force copy.
not stated is the prescribing publication and not stated the office responsible for the document. Deadlines belong to local implementing guidance, not to either of those, so a submission date is a question for the receiving office.
Use not stated, status not stated. Older printings circulate widely and lose their currency Department-wide the moment a new edition issues.
The set is PDF. Size: 2 pages, about 200 fields.
Xfdl is a legacy Department format, IBM Lotus Forms, requiring the matching viewer. Its survival in DD distribution reflects how widely it was fielded across the Department, not any advantage over pdf today.
All formats are free. One operational note: save the file locally and open it in a desktop reader. Browser-embedded viewers drop field properties and lose typed data without warning.
What the form asks for
- Addressograph.
- Acuity code 2. Vital signs q4h or x 6. Point value (2).
- Acuity code 3. Vital signs q3h or x 8. Point value (3).
- Acuity code 4. Vital signs q3h or x 12. Point value (4).
- Acuity code 5. Vital signs q1h or x 24. Point value (8).
- Acuity code 6. Rectal or axillary temp or apical pulse qid or more. Point value (2).
- Acuity code 7. Femoral, pedal or popliteal pulses or FHT qid or more. Point value (2).
- Acuity code 8. Tilt test q4h or more. Point value (2).
- Acuity code 9. Post-op, post-partum, post delivery (newborn VS). Point value (6).
- 2. Monitoring. Acuity code 10. Intake and output q8h. Point value (2).
- Acuity code 11. Intake and output q2h. Point value (8).
- Acuity code 12. Circulation or fundus checks 12h or x12. Point value (2).
- Acuity code 13. Neuro checks q4h or x 6. Point value (3).
- Acuity code 14. Neuro checks q2h or x 12. Point value (6).
- Acuity code 15. CVP or ICP (manual) q2h or x 12. Point value (2).
- Acuity code 16. Cardiac/apnea/temp/BP monitor (not cumulative). Point value (6).
- Acuity code 17. Transcutaneous monitor/oximeter. Point value (6).
- Acuity code 18. A-line or ICP monitor or Swan Ganz set-up. Point value (4).
- Acuity code 19. A-line or ICP monitor rreading q2h or x 12. Point value (2).
- Acuity code 20. Swan Ganz PAP/PA wedge reading q4h or x 6. Point value (2).
- Acuity code 21. Swan Ganz PAP/PA wedge reading q2h or x 12. Point value (4).
- Acuity code 22. Cardiac output tid or x 3. Point value (2).
- 3. Activities of daily living. Acuity code 23. Care - age 5 or less (infant/toddler). Point value (6).
- Acuity code 24. Care - age 6 or more (self/minimal). Point value (2).
Verify the edition before the first keystroke. The date on the form face should read not stated. If it does not, discard the file. Field numbering shifts between editions, and on a DD form the new layout reaches every receiving office in every service at once — there is no lag during which the old version is still normal somewhere.
For anything ambiguous in a specific field, the form's own instructions come first and not stated controls where the two differ.
Route it where not stated or local procedure directs, and keep a copy first. On a Department form the receiving office is frequently outside your own chain — another service, a defense agency, a joint command — which makes recovering a lost original slower than it would be internally.
Related forms are found by number alone. The DD sequence is one unified Department-wide series, so a cited number resolves to exactly one document with no branch qualifier needed.
Do not read across from a service number. DA numbering is Army-specific under an Army proponent; DD numbering is Department-wide under not stated or an equivalent Department office. The sequences are unrelated, so identical digits in each identify two different documents. Read the prefix, not the digits.
Revision follows directive changes, changed data requirements and amended notice language, unannounced. Verify not stated each time rather than trusting a saved copy — the cost of the check is seconds.
What is here is the blank form and a description of it. What is not here is legal guidance or any assurance about a particular filing — this page is not the issuing authority and does not speak for one. Those questions go to not stated, to your servicing administrative office, or to the authority identified in not stated.
Questions and answers
- What is DD Form 2551?
- DD Form 2551, Workload Management System for Nursing - General Worksheet, February 1992
- Which edition is current?
- Not stated by the publisher
- Who is responsible for this form?
- Not stated
- In which formats can it be downloaded?