Why do I always clock out an hour late?

You tell yourself you are bad at charting. You are not. You are doing the charting at the one moment in the shift when there is no time left for it — the end. By then every task of the day has piled onto that single hour, and of course it overflows. This is not a question of trying harder. Working faster at the end will not fix a structure that dumps everything at the end. The fix is where the work happens, not how fast you move once it has all landed on you. Notice what is actually in your power. You cannot add hours to the shift. You can choose when, inside the shift, the charting happens — and that choice is yours every time you finish with a patient. If the dread goes beyond this one hour, that is worth saying out loud to someone you trust, not just solving alone.