" Recently, I had responded to an on-call assignment @ a local LTC facility,where they had recently

         adapted," paperless documentation".During the course of the shift, I was given a temporary,password

          for visiting,licensed staff to utilize for charting>which failed to take to their computer system.

          The * Help Desk voicemail did not respond ,either.After my shift was completed,

          I documented pertinent information for the day,in charts,**using handwritten,Nurse's Notes.

          When I inquired about having my timeslip signed by the RN, I was sent to the DON's office.

           ***They insisted on **paperless charting> refusing to authorize my hours that I had worked.

           I met with the,"powers that be",remained very calm, soon thereafter, acquired credit for a job well done.

           This circumstance was reported to the appropriate personnel / private contractor.

             **Any thoughts on this matter?"

more free time is what was promised when using the computerized charting ahhh yes

not true!!

the only thing good about computer charting is that you can alter the font and color and size of the letters!! i frequently chart my notes i hot pink 3 inch letters!! very snazzy

   My facility has also adopted the paperless charting per computer. The thing is we on all 3 shifts cont. to do a skilled nursing note as well. It's crazy and most of the overtime is due to this double and triple charting.... I work dayshift 6 -2 and it's usually 4 or 5 before i get out of the facility. It's nuts and i'm worn out!!! I don't understand the purpose of paperless charting when we cont. to do Nurses notes!!

We've had paperless charting at my hospital for several years now and there are good and bad points. the bad is that instead of freeing the nurses to spend more time with their patients, it has chained them to the desk. The computers freeze or just shut down, and when they work they are slow. the MDs don't have access to the computer nurse's notes so they never read them, and the "funny bad' is that i thought computers would help nurses document clearly and "legibly" but the spelling errors are atrocious and no one seems to remember that there's SPELL CHECK! the positive, for me as the Nurse Manager, is that i have a computer in my office and don't have to wade through cumbersome charts, look for charts all day or try to decipher  illegible nurse's notes. I can access the patient screens and get info on everything the nurses input. They also do medication documentation via the computer. the patients many times comment that they nurses are "always on the computer."