http://suzannecgordon.com/so-much-for-the-latest-silver-bullet/ Fri, 03 May 2013 12:21:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 http://suzannecgordon.com/so-much-for-the-latest-silver-bullet/#comment-279 Ann Fritz RN Thu, 21 Jun 2012 22:50:49 +0000 http://www.suzannegordon.com/?p=440#comment-279 I have noticed that nursing errors are determined by what is typed into or nottyped into the EMR. You can be a great documentor and give very little patient care. If you type it,and had no time to do it you are safe under your license, but if you do it and don't get it typed in or type it wrong, you can loose your license and unlike written charting; management can change what you say downto the harddrive by overriding your passcode in some systems. Otherwise, it is great! I have noticed that nursing errors are determined by what is typed into or nottyped into the EMR. You can be a great documentor and give very little patient care. If you type it,and had no time to do it you are safe under your license, but if you do it and don’t get it typed in or type it wrong, you can loose your license and unlike written charting; management can change what you say downto the harddrive by overriding your passcode in some systems. Otherwise, it is great!

]]> http://suzannecgordon.com/so-much-for-the-latest-silver-bullet/#comment-190 Teena M McGuinness Wed, 01 Sep 2010 10:33:18 +0000 http://www.suzannegordon.com/?p=440#comment-190 The electronic medical record (EMR) is extremely useful in my practice as a psychiatric nurse practitioner in a primary care clinic. However, I think we have yet to peek into the Pandora's Box of ethical and legal issues that will transpire because of it. Thanks for the link to the JAMA article; it is definitely food for thought. With only about 11% having adopted EMR (according to a recent paper published on the Health Affairs website), we still have a ways to go. But the next generation of nurses will definitely be dealing with these ethical and legal issues surrounding EMR. The electronic medical record (EMR) is extremely useful in my practice as a psychiatric nurse practitioner in a primary care clinic. However, I think we have yet to peek into the Pandora’s Box of ethical and legal issues that will transpire because of it. Thanks for the link to the JAMA article; it is definitely food for thought.
With only about 11% having adopted EMR (according to a recent paper published on the Health Affairs website), we still have a ways to go. But the next generation of nurses will definitely be dealing with these ethical and legal issues surrounding EMR.

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