Tips on giving report

Hi everyone! I’m a new grad working on a cardiac telemetry unit and then going to the ICU. I’ve worked 4 shifts so far and my preceptor was having me practice giving report the last two shifts. It’s probably my biggest hurdle right now lol I’m incredibly socially awkward and I just have no idea how in depth to go.

We practiced during school but our reports were very quick, easy, and my professors gave us little to no feedback. So now I have a preceptor that goes super in depth and tells the oncoming nurse literally everything and kind of expects me to do the same.

My first report was for a patient the nurse had the night before so they let me practice the whole thing, skipping his extensive history, but it was mostly just updates on how he was during our shift. My second report was for the same patient (I had him twice) to a new nurse. I did pretty good, my preceptor stepped in a few times to add stuff about conversations she had with the provider and stuff about labs that I didn’t remember but overall went well. My third report…yeesh what a nightmare. I think it went so poorly because 1. I didn’t really understand what was going on with him and why he was even on our unit 2. He didn’t really need anything medically, just a couple of medications for his diabetes, hypertension, and an antipsychotic 3. He was stuck in limbo, he was there on a psychiatric hold but all of his symptoms he came in with had subsided so they were just waiting to see if the doctors would release him. My preceptor stepped in a lot for this one. I don’t even know where she found half the information she did. I was mostly sticking to the basics of why he was brought in, his pmh, and what his situation was and how you didn’t really need to do much since he was fully independent.

Idk does anyone have any tips? I also don’t like the report sheets my unit has so I need to find one with a better flow for me if anyone has any suggestions.