snoopdrew

Hi all, thanks for your valuable feedback. I am the OP and I did ask about the whiteboard at the nurse station for the whole unit. This whiteboard is usually a large dry erase board or a large computer display. Now that I have a good sense of what's on there, I have some follow up questions... What are the benefits of using a whiteboard? How has it affected your job or the patient's care? Does it help the hospital make more money or save money in some way?

Hey all, It's me Drew, the researcher guy again with the earlier topic about "what's on your whiteboard?". That info was very helpful. I hope more of you can share. My follow up question is... whether you have plain dry erase board or electronic board... What would your ideal, perfect whiteboard be like? Or put it another way... what sucks about your whiteboard? What do you hate about it? What info would it have that you don't have now, like maybe stuff your nurse call system or patient vitals from the monitoring devices? How would you interact with it differently to see or update the info faster or with more detail? Thanks!

Hello all, First of all, let me get this out of the way... I'm Drew... not a nurse, but a technology researcher guy for healthcare. I've been asking some of my friends in nursing about their experiences, but I'd like to reach out to wider set of different opinions. I'm curious to hear some anecdotal stories about how nurses use their whiteboard to facilitate communication. There seems to be at least one at or near the nurse call station to track patients and bed status at the hospitals I've visited. What specific information is on YOUR whiteboard for YOUR ward? What I've seen... Room #, patient name, doc, nurse, admit date, lab/imaging order status, consults.... Do you use a plain dry eraseboard as your whiteboard? Or do you use an electronic whiteboard (giant LCD/plasma) running special software that shows patient info from the hospital's computer system? Thanks! -drew