Just curious- What do you use on the floor?

[MJB2010]

Paper MARS or the computerized scanner? ALl throughout nursing school clinicals we used the computers for med administration and now I am working at a hospital that uses paper MARS.

ANd for charting- paper or electronic?

[K+MgSO4, BSN]

Big teaching hospital in Melbourne. Paper everywhere except for ED which has just had a huge renovation and gone paperless.

But they have to print everything off as the rest of the hospital is not on the system. The admitting unit has to write up the drug chart and they do their admission notes by hand.

[jjjoy, LPN]

Reading the title of the thread my first instinct was to say "Mr. Clean".

Me, too! LOL!

[Turtle in scrubs]

Computerized charting for MAR (and about 95% of all other charting). No scanning yet.

[NurseKatie08, MSN]

We have computerized MARs and TARs...no scanning though (I'm in a SNF, so we have the bubble pack/bingo cards for meds). Nursing notes, admission assessments, care plans etc are on paper, but the system we have will allow us to go gradually to a complete electronic medical record within the next several years, ideally.

[PAROPPY, BSN, RN]

Paper everything!! Such a waste of time! We are supposed to go all electronic next year.

[notjustanurse]

We have paper MARs and paper charting. Our ordering system (labs, xrays, diet, etc) is computerized. They are planning for us to go to an EPIC system sometime in the next 2-3 years, but we are very small so it may take longer.

[sunnycalifRN]

BCMA!! The greatest!!

[Caffeine_IV]

Computer charting and Admin Rx for medications...scanners. We just started the computer charting and I'm not sure how well I like it. The hourly rounding log (waste of paper) and care plans are still on paper.

[SaraO'Hara]

Paper, paper, all paper. Hand-written paper MARs. Paper assessment sheets labeled with pt. names by the night shift. Oooh I loathe it.