Looking for nurses who work with Meditech, Eclipsys or Cerner

I have to agree with you on your statements. However, I think the biggest challenge with FirstNet is getting the physicians to use the T sheet in the system. since our implementation - we have found that many of the docs want the nurses to print out the T sheet. When we inquired as to why the docs wanted this - many of them said it was easier. That translates into "I really don't want to change my current practice."

My suggestion to you is to make sure you do some really good, comprehensive training with your ED physicians and let them know that printing the T sheet is simply not an option. If they know this on the front end - they may be more likely comply once you are live.

Good luck!

Thank you all for your responses! We have narrowed down our search to 2 vendors.....Cerner & Eclipsys. I have been doing work with our project manager assigned to Phase 1 of this enormous project, and would like to know more about client education involving the vendor and the staff education department at your facilities. If anyone has worked with implementation and how either one of these vendors approached training at your facilities, I would appreciate hearing about it.
I am interested in finding out how they worked with your facility's education department, what staff-development educators were involved (nurse/medical informatics specialists, RN educators, etc.), how many staff were trained at a time, in what order did the vendor approach training, did the vendor do complete on-site training or did they suggest off-site as well, were application analysts sent on-site to train, etc.
Whatever info you can share would be helpful.
Thank you! Teri

I certainly agree with you, Physicians are quite hesitant to change their current practices and we have planned to provide them a very structured and thorough training 8 weeks prior conversion date. A Physician trainer will conduct the training as well and there would be a 1 week focus group Physicians training for those who are not able to catch up after their 8 week training. I hope that this plan would work and it's a bit difficult dividing my time as an application specialist, ED charge nurse and facility's learning coordinator,,, but I'm really trying my best to make things work out and put it into its proper perspectives. Thank you for the brilliant advice.