Computarized Med Pass in a LTC facility????????

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I work in a Dementia Unit in LTC facility. My facility is changing pharmacy services. We are going to get computers in the med cart. Please share your experience how you feel passing meds with a computarized MAR in a LTC facility. Pharmacy's name start with a M. Thanks in advance.

Our facility is going to computerized everything soon. Currently we put our vitals, certain report and physicians orders in the computer but otherwise everything is still paper. We are being told by the end of the year we will be doing computerized chart, eMARs, eTARs and all the other stuff we usually do on paper. Can't wait to see what kind of mess that's going to be.

Specializes in LTC,Hospice/palliative care,acute care.

It shouldn't be a mess.Our process was very organized.The company sent out IT people to train us and then staff volunteered to upload the info unit by unit and then we went live unit by unit while the company still maintained a team of training staff to help the nurses on each shift and each unit for the first couple of days.

The only problem we have is our Wifi is spotty-we are in a couple of really old buildings.They continue to work on the issue to resolve it.Occassionally the system goes down and that IS a nightmare.We have to print out everything for every unit-it's not collated in anyway.It's a real pain.We went live last Oct and I work full time and have only had to do this twice.I think that's pretty good.

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