Computer charting...love it or hate it?

[CareBayer]

What program does your hospital use....we use Cerner. It's OK, but we still have paper charts that the doctors write their orders in. The charge nurse then puts the new orders into Cerner.

We still have paper interdiciplinary plans of care, moorse falls sheets, education pathways, and a bunch of other paperwork that could easily be put into the Cerner system. It seems like a lot of double charting occurs IMO.

[JaredCNA, CNA]

Our ER is still paper charting, as are a lot of the other ERs in the area. ER, ICU, and Surgery paper chart, whereas the floors chart in the computer.

I'm not sure why that is.

[justerrn, BSN, RN]

There is a reason that IT people go to computer schooling and nurses go to nursing school. I am not against computers, but, when it takes 15 minutes and 4-5 screens to triage someone instead of 2 minutes there is a problem. I dont know who decided it would be a wonderful idea to take a fast paced environment and slow it down with these wonderful pc systems...but we all know they have never coded a patient or had a septic patient or any kind of critical patient. There is NO time to log in and use data entry in an ER...Im an ER nurse that believes in saving lives...not playing 15 minute triages and 10 minute assessments. Im very scared of what computers are going to turn nurses into....the hands on care is going to fade fast...and it makes me very sad for our patients and our profession.