Week 4

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by Terra Buhman0 views·Updated Sep 23, 2021
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  1. So this week we're going to talk about areas for
  2. improvement process areas that typically nurses will see that maybe
  3. administration does not in ways that we understand specifically that
  4. are Uh huh.
  5. Maybe administrators wouldn't understand or that other faculty members wouldn't
  6. understand. So first off what we'll talk about is Mhm.
  7. My experience as an agency nurse, I have a very
  8. unique perspective.
  9. I have many different hospitals under my belt and I
  10. have a very good sense of what works and what
  11. does not work.
  12. Uh There are multiple EMR systems as far as Megatech,
  13. Epic Cerner being my favorite.
  14. I will say that and then there's also programs that
  15. are purchased to go along with each one of those
  16. systems that either enhance or take away from those systems
  17. that being said those systems are nothing without their IT
  18. department now not all it departments are created equal.
  19. Some hospitals have better it departments some have less members
  20. of it and that can really make a big difference
  21. in how nurses are able to function on a day
  22. to day basis.
  23. Mhm. Yeah.
  24. Yeah. The functionality of your EMR system is not only
  25. important but the type of package that the hospital purchases
  26. is fundamental.
  27. It's crucial.
  28. The area that we can that I see a lot
  29. of hospitals can improve on.
  30. Is that the way that they deliver medications?
  31. Yeah. Yeah.
  32. Yeah. Yeah.
  33. Yeah, particularly in the center system medications can be delivered
  34. one of two ways either through the omni cell function
  35. um which is the best, most efficient way of medication
  36. delivery, you order up the medication through your cow or
  37. your, wow.
  38. You go to the bedroom, you've already ordered that medication
  39. under that particular patient, You go into the pixies, that
  40. medication pops up under that patient's name and they are
  41. ready to go for that patient.
  42. This is the most time saving method of every method
  43. I've seen any hospital I've worked at.
  44. There's other Cerner prescription medication draw ups that you are
  45. in the patient chart in the actual bedroom and you
  46. have to pick out each medication one at a time.
  47. That takes an extensive amount of time.
  48. You have a line of nurses in the bedroom waiting
  49. to get to each patient and you have to do
  50. each patient one at a time.
  51. This takes an incredible amount of time.
  52. Now you think about this.
  53. The functionality of Cerner has not changed one way or
  54. the other.
  55. However, it is the extension package that they have purchased
  56. for their prescriptions.
  57. That has changed therefore it is just that small adaptation
  58. that has really enhanced the entire experience especially among nurses
  59. and then changes it to the point that it really
  60. saves time.
  61. It saves money and that nurses are not working overtime
  62. because we're not standing in line waiting to get our
  63. medications up.
  64. Um And that definitely could be a process improvement for
  65. a lot of different hospitals.
  66. So that's my presentation for this week.
  67. Everybody have a great week.
  68. Thanks bye guys