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Nursing and Eleectronic Medical Records
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Posted over 2 years ago I am an RN on a pediatric unit for 20+ years. I am also a student in an MBA Health Care Management Program. I am conducting a poll to see how nurses feel about going towards electronic medical records and would appreciate any and all input. |
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| Posted over 2 years ago " Working for quite a while,I would be assigned to work @ select,LTC facilites,when they request staffing. Paperless documentation is the new-age approach for documentation.I believe it is a great way to write nurse's notes and definitely is a time saver.The only downpart to this is:a) costly to provide enough computers for medical personnel and it is time consuming having to,"wait your turn", to use them.b) for every nurse visiting the facility,you need to be provided with,"your own password",and sometimes,this takes approx.45 minutes to an hour to acquire via,"phone-tag",with the help desk.c) Depending whether the facility is,"corporate-owned", they are usually, "very conservative", preferring to,"limit visiting nurses," thus,"will work with pool staffing", whereby, " increasing the documentation-demands",upon their own staff.d) If there is any electrical power-outage within the area, ( thunderstorms,snow storms and extremes of heat,impairing the computer power source),delays,delays and so on... Generally speaking, the demand can sometimes outweigh the means." |
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| Posted over 2 years ago Worked with computers for many years prior to becoming a nurse. Definitely prefer written records over computer generated records. Less room for tampering with your charting, no computer system problems. |
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| Posted over 2 years ago I think electronic records is the way things are going, whether we like it or not. I can say, I believe it is more time consuming to use electronic records. Call me old fashioned, but I still miss the days of charting by exception, the good old fashioned way. Check, Check, Check, and I'm done. On to the next patient... :) Joyce Harrell, RN, OCN
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| Posted over 1 year ago 1. Size of organization, location 2. location 3. RN or LPN, BSN, Associates or Diploma? Specialty area? Hospice
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Received a couple of days training then some webex's. There is no way it is enough. On going training is a plus.
Be prepared to do ten times more work than before. Be prepared to pay big bucks to receive the "real" training needed Write everything down! Practice daily! Train superusers! Ditch the pride, ask for help before frustration sets in! Your employees need you to be positive and knowledgeable whether your feeling it or not.
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