What is one way you could become involved in designing, selecting, evaluating, or implementing an information system in your workplace?
Simply ask to get involved if you see a need! I actually had this opportunity in a Labor and Delivery unit where Cerner was being introduced. In order to help the designers become familiar to our needs, they shadowed us for a shift to see the various charting that we did. I was able to give my input on things that would make charting easier, forms that would be helpful for assessment, education and fetal monitoring, and discharge check lists. As a unit, we made a list of things we needed, and we also were able to work side by side with the designers before it went live for test run's to make sure the charting was adequate, efficient and helpful to the nursing process. I learned a lot during this process and didn't realize how much I liked the IT area of healthcare. I think that EMR are limited in a "point and click" manner that could become 'mundane' to the worker but it is so helpful to be able to share a person's EMR with many providers and help coordinate care more efficiently.
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