I have been a RN for 3 years. The first hospital I worked at used electronic charting. The hospital I work at now uses paper, BUT we are transitioning to EPIC in October (yay!)
We have been told for months there will be ONLY electronic charting and the doctors will put in their own orders, but the nurses still have the ability to input telephone/verbal orders if needed.
We have been informed as of today we will be keeping blank physician order forms on the units even with the Epic Charting System. The unit secretary will transcribe their paper orders and input them in EPIC if on the RARE (sarcasm) occasion the physician writes out orders. Hence, we will still have to signed off on orders in the chart AND the computer.
My concern/question is doesn't this defeat the purpose of electronic charting? There was suppose to be no more paper. I also believe if we do not get rid of paper now, the culture of the hospital will never change.
Specializes in Certified Case Manager, Community Health.
I agree with this post and the legalities and financial aspects of the Federal initiative for CPOM.
Although proper paper documentation will never leave us. For example in 2017, major and extensive power outages from CAT 3-4 hurricanes temporarily forced 100% paper documentation for everything.
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