Psych Hospitals and EMR’s

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I have a question and I hope someone here can help me. I’m very interested in psych nursing, but a lot of the psych facilities where I live in Southern Mass don’t use EMR’s  and don’t scan patient ID bands and medication labels during med administration. This makes me nervous because I’m so OCD about making a mistake. Does anyone know any good psych hospitals  in Massachusetts that practice barcode scanning for med administration  and use EMR’s instead of paper records? Thanks!

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Specializes in Ambulatory Case Management, Clinic, Psychiatry.

Psych units in "general"/regular hospitals should use EMRs. Salem hospital/north shore medical center in salem does, is hiring, and recently expanded their units.

 

I would think Carney and St Elizabeth's would have EMRs

Tufts Medical center has a psych unit 

BWH Faulkner, MGH, BIDMC, McLean in Belmont

 

I am not sure about the Arbour facilities

 

I love on the North shore in MA 

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Specializes in school nurse.

It might be problematic as some folks with severe symptoms may not tolerate wearing an ID band.

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