InterOpNurse Thoughts

Here I am at the gym. I just finished working out, trying to relieve some of the days stress. I just got into a situation, where in I am fixing a mess an employee of mine created for me. What it boiled down to, is the inability to communicate and pay attention to details. This was an employee who pratically begged me for a position, because he was hungry to be given an opportunity to be in a nursing informatics position. Well I took a risk, and he failed me miserably today. On a different note…he embarassed me.

I kept thinking, where did I go wrong, and where did I fail to communicate. As I thought about the situation even more, I personally deduced it to several factors:

1. When implementing an EMR, simply hiring a nurse is not the key. As a matter of fact, being involve in an implementation just highlights how bad of a nurse at the bedside a person was. If you can pay attention to little details that an EMR implementation requires of you, then you must not have been a tune to the suttle changes a patient goes through which highlights whether you were a proactive nurse or a reactive nurse.
2. How dedicated you are at producing a product the clinicians will use is a direct reflection of how good your bedside manners were.
3. Ability or inability to realize as implementers of EMR’s we are acting as care extenders. The product we produce has direct relationship to how safe our patients will be as recipients of care from clinicians who utilize the tool we provided.

These are my thoughts at least…

Your comments appreciated