Computer/ COMPASS charting

Tora,

Our hosp just went with Mckesson for Admim for meds..everything is scanned and most of the time it doesn't work..IT SUX ..Your patient care IS GONE cause you are fixated on your COMPUTER! YOUR PATIENTS AND FAMILIES JUST SEE NURSES LOOKING AT COMPUTERS NOT REALIZING THEY ARE TRYING TO COMPREHEND DOCUMENTATION. but they are right that patient care has been forfeited

You are so right. When I look at our unit objectively, all I see are nurses sitting at their COWs (computers on wheels)---------or if your hospital objects to "cows"--- then their WOWs (workstations on wheels), staring zombie-like at the screens. Remember in the old days when families might see RNs at the station charting and think they were doing "nothing". Now-- little do they know when they see us "staring into the computer" that in each monthly staff meeting management is telling us how our (computer) charting is incomplete, incorrect or inadequate.

Think about a (medically) restrained pt (cause we ALL know there are NO "behaviorly" restrained pts *LOL*) -- this pt needs to be visually checked q 1 H-- and that means documented on Q1 H----then Q 2 H a whole range of things need to be documented. The time this takes on a computer is PHENOMENAL!

HIPAA is here to stay-- therefore if you don't have computer charting now--- it's soon coming to you------------BEWARE.

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guuguugaathatsalliwanttou

OMG...that's hilarious! I've just started working in an ICU unit in a large learning hospital, and I swear I have been sooo much more overwhelmed with all the computer "stuff" than anything else! Thanks for the laugh....so funny because it's so true!

AAAARRRRGGGGHHHH!!!

This is what happens when systems are designed by bean-counters & tecchies. We need more nurse/developers in IT!

Any volunteers? :typing

Rebz,

you are so right. My husband is involved in simulation programs for medical care and he says it's the geeks's lack of "human factor". I have to say it's getting better here but they post in the lunch area each employee's percentile of correctly scanning for the world to see. It still takes alot longer but Admin. doesn't care cause they want Magnet status.