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We need some quick feedback from other nurses who have experience using the CPSI Point of Care system and their system for scanning meds with the CPSI Med-Verify component. I am a charge RN on a busy 33 bed Med-Surg unit in a small rural hospital in North Carolina. We've been using CPSI for documentation and med administration since April of this year. Our staff is unanimous that this has been the single most stressful experience of our careers. It has destroyed our morale. CPSI Point of Care was dumped on us all at once instead of having a gradual phase in with time to learn and assimilate it. Additionally, there have been nearly unending software and hardware problems that add to the sense of futility and feed anger and resentment. We initially scanned patient armbands and med bar codes with hand held PDAs but had to abandon them due to software and hardware problems. We are now about to resume scanning using some new rolling carts /c better scanners for "bedside documentation." Our experience so far is that the CPSI software is so slow, requires so many stylus or mouse "clicks", and is so cumbersome to use that it increases our workload to intolerable levels. Any feedback from other CPSI users will be greatly appreciated. We want to know what your experience with CPSI has been: how much of the total system are you using, what kinds of problems did you have, and how have you dealt with them? What is your overall satisfaction with CPSI. (Might as well rate it on the 0 to 10 scale, with zero = zero satisfaction). And in particular, what is your experience with Med-Verify with your scanners. We have a meeting /c administration this Wednesday the 22nd; so any feedback before then will help a lot. But don't take that as a deadline-- this is an ongoing process so any input will be really appreciated. You can reply through this forum or send me a private message. Thanks very much Unhappy CPSI RN.

To any CPSI users - What is your experience using CPSI and particularly PDA's for CPSI Med Verify? I work at a 77 bed rural hospital on a 33 bed Med-Surg unit as a charge RN. We've been using CPSI since April of this year. It has been very difficult- sull of hardware, software problems. Every nurse on the unit says they would quit and work somewhere else if they could. What has your experience been? And particularly, are you using MedVerify, scanning meds and armbands? Does this work for you? Does it slow you down? Does it improve safety? Please give me feedback before Wednesday, 2/22, (next meeting /c administration). Thanks.