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 in 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,

InterOpNurse