Anyone who has used McKesson?

[leekun2010]

My hospital is in the process of building our computer charting system, and the program that we're gonna go live with is the Clinical Care Station from McKesson. Is there anyone in this forum who has built a system with this program from McKesson or at least has some experience in using McKesson?

What are the pros and cons of Mckesson?

What can you say about this system?

I'm just curious because my core team started this week with classes from the McKesson folks on how to use the system, and it seems okay, but I wanna know from other nurses and other folks who are here about your opinion on anything about McKesson's computer charting system.

Looking forward to your responses :)

[h15264]

I am a recently fired nurse, because the McKesson software dumps charting. The frequent error boxes screw up your confirming and saving med administrations. Is there anyone out there who has noticed their charting is GONE? When you know for sure you saved it. I need people to notify me if this has happened to them. Many,many of my coworkers have lost charting and med administration entry's but will not put it in writing for fear of retaliation. The older nurses are getting harassed and fired because of missing charting. I need statements I can print off to show the board of nursing and my union. Please post your comments full names would be great but first names is fine. Please help me. Thanks. Luann W.

[CraigB-RN, MSN, RN]

Issues with McKesson

1. You get what you pay for

2. It's geared toward collecting data but not so good about giving it back.

3. Blank sheet. It's a general purpose EMR that is trying to specialize. You have to make sure you think out what you want very well during the build process.

Make sure you know what reports you want and have them set up in the build process, including ad hoc reports.