long term care facilities..computerized charting yet?

it hasnt, lol

Today I had to cut my wrist and write with my blood...Well-not really but that's what it felt like.Rotten day...

Time stands still where I work--no computerized charting yet. It is still a great place to work for me!

I live in a small dinky town in North Carolina - Scotland Neck, population approximately 1000. I have worked at a LTC facility for the past 3 years, and 2 of those years WERE COMPUTERIZED.

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We went totally computerized in 2007 (March, I think). We are a 70 bed facility, not big at all. It was really hard at first to get used to, but now I wouldn't have it any other way.

According to my DON, all facilities have to be all computer in the next year or so. The program we use is HMS, Health Managment Systems.

We implemented computerized charting at the nursing home I work in earlier this year. What really bothers me about it is the staff that can't read/write english or can't use a computer so when you read their notes you have no idea what they're trying to say! It was better when it was all hand written and you just didn't bother trying to read it because when it's all in print on a computer screen, everything is legible!

Not where I work. I wish we would get computerized charting, but that will not happen any time soon. I have worked at facilities that were computerized and it was nice to be able to read everyone's charting.