GE Centricity EMR charting

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Is anyone out there using GE Centricity EMR (Electronic Medical Record) Charting? Just wondering how it is working for your specific department and what changes has your department/hospital made to make it specifically fit your nursing area?

We went to this system back in June so that we would eventually be a paperless hospital and we would forgo the hard chart. I really enjoy my job-I love my job actually-but this system has us charting more than we ever had before. I work mother/baby and on occasion we may have 5 couplets to chart on so we are charting on 10 people every 4 hours-which takes A LOT OF TIME.

We just had a 3 hour updated class that added even more stuff to chart. To top it off labor/delivery uses watch child and that information doesn't even cross over to our system so we have to rechart everything they do in watch child onto our system(They don't have to use the GE system "yet").

Like to hear from 'ya.