Daily Vitals & Symptom Log

What this sheet is for

When you are caring for someone at home, small changes in their readings can matter as much as a single alarming number. This sheet gives you one dated row per day so you can record blood pressure, pulse, temperature, and a pain score in a consistent format, with space beside each entry to note specific symptoms, mood changes, or anything unusual that the care team should know about.

How to use it

Write the month and year at the top right. Each day, fill the date in the first column, then record BP (systolic/diastolic), resting pulse, and temperature in their columns. Use the Pain scale of 0 to 10, where 0 is no pain and 10 is the worst imaginable. In the Symptoms column note anything specific — dizziness, swelling, confusion, loss of appetite, or changes in breathing. At the end of the month, complete the Month-end Review strip: calculate an approximate average blood pressure, count the number of days where the pain score was 4 or above, and note whether a GP, nurse, or specialist was contacted and on what date.

What is printed on the page

“Daily Vitals & Symptom Log” is laid out as dated table: a date column plus four labelled value columns and an optional notes column, 22 numbered rows, and a summary strip at the foot. Under the title it reads “Record blood pressure, pulse, temperature, and symptoms each day.”, and the line at the foot of the page says “Share completed sheets with the care team at each visit — patterns across days are more useful than single readings.”.

The column headings slot holds four entries — “BP (mmHg)”, “Pulse (bpm)”, “Temp (°C/°F)” and “Pain (0–10)” — so the sheet is already filled in for caregiving rather than left as blank rows to label yourself.

The summary prompts slot holds three entries — “Avg BP (mmHg)”, “High pain days” and “GP/nurse notified” — so the sheet is already filled in for caregiving rather than left as blank rows to label yourself.

The remaining labels on “Daily Vitals & Symptom Log”, the caregiving sheet, are “Month / Year” for the period label, “Symptoms” for the notes heading and “Month-end Review” for the summary heading.

Two things about this particular dated table are settings rather than text, and “Daily Vitals & Symptom Log” has them set like this. Notes column is on: add a wide notes column at the right of the table. Summary strip is on: include the summary strip at the foot.

Tips

Take BP and pulse at the same time each day, ideally after 5 minutes of rest, to keep readings comparable.

Use consistent temperature units throughout the sheet — write °C or °F at the top so any reader interprets values correctly.

A pain score above 6 on two or more consecutive days is worth a call to the care team the same day, not at the next scheduled visit.

The other layouts in this set

“Daily Vitals & Symptom Log” is one of three sheets in this set, each a different fixed layout filled for the same topic. “Caregiver Appointment Log” uses the two-column log layout and “Home Care Supply Tracker” uses the notes and table layout. Pick by how you work: the layout decides how much you write and where, not what the sheet is about.