computer charting

Where is Nursing on computer charting? Our facility has a "multidisciplinary" charting system that sells itself as a "poweful program that will change charting as we know it". Our facility's goal is to create an electronic chart...sounds good. All the patient information at your fingertips. The problem is with computer "downtime". Scanning information obtained during downtime is the answer to getting information onto the chart that is not entered into the computer. This however is not an option for nursing admissions, assessments, vital signs, recoveries, discharge planning, treatments, pain documentation, RN cosigns for LPN assessments... No scanning for us. Apparently we are to big of a dept to train. We have up to 10 days to enter the missing information. Overtime is not problem. I am furious that this hospital does not think that nursing time isn't valuable. :angryfire I want to go to the union, but I'm not sure where the grievance is other than patient safety issues due to information left out after 10 days of having not been entered onto the electronic chart.

See if the company has an option for redundancy, some systems are dupicated so that if one goes down the other takes over.