agency question

Have only been to a couple of places where they actually gave you orientation on the computer stuff. Depends on the facility and usually how good their overall education program is and also if they have every gotten dinged by JCAHO for lack of orientation for agency/float nurses. I have never had a hospital that DIDN'T give me username and passwords for the computer as well as med vending machine. You always have to sign their little privacy agreement. Some hospitals have given me a permanent vending machine code, others enter you into the machine temporarily for each shift that you work. Usually the charge does this. Once you get accustomed to how they and the computer system works, it is generally fairly easy to navigate the other brands of those machines.