Electronic Health Records- Outpatient Practices

[wtrang]

I have a question for nurses in outpatient settings.

Does your practice currently use EHRs or in the process of implementing one?

I am a nursing student and we're currently using Neehr Perfect, an electronic health record simulator. Working as an intern, I found out that there are a lot of practices which are converting to 'paperless' offices. I'm tech savvy and work with computers all the time, and learning this, I want to know how nurses already working in the field feel about this. I would love to work in a technologically advanced office or hospital and ones that are still old school are big turn offs for me.

I know that the new generation of nurses would be like me, but with the older generation of nurses, how do you feel about moving away from paper and carrying around tablets all day?

[TonieRN]

Yes, we use an EHR and are paperless. Love it. I am "old school"...had electric typwriter in college...remember those??? lol. But love the EHR. Was hard at first...learning curve was straight up...no curve to it. After first few months, a breeze.

[TonieRN]

btw...we dont use tablets....have PC in all rooms...most desks not in rooms have 2 screens to work on..and yes I use both.....

[lillymom]

I work in an office and we use EHR. I personally love it and we also have computers in all our exam rooms.

I absolutely love sending prescriptions through the computer as well because you don't have to do anything to document it. The pharmacy sends it to you and you send it back and it automatically records it for you and it will tell you everything you need to know like when the pt.'s last fill was and when their last office visit was. It saves lots of time instead of having to search for a chart and then search through a chart.

[HouTx, BSN, MSN, EdD]

I know it probably was not meant that way, but the OP's message seemed a tad "age-ist". No one should ever assume that tenured nurses are less resiliant than newbies. Heck, you can't imagine all the changes we've been through - this ain't no biggie. LOL! Physicians are the ones who are having a hard time. Federal HITECH implementation means that they will actually have to touch keyboards and enter their own orders - rather than telling someone else to do it.