Sunday 3 June 2012

Computers in Nursing

By Allyson Westcot


Positions for trained medical employees who understand the medical as well as the computerized side of their jobs may one day involve only file work as electronic medical records become the standard. Somebody with the appropriate medical knowledge could be critical to ensure precision, and to make certain that records are handled in a fashion that sounds correct for the office and clinic staff. From correct spelling to all the applicable information, records must be checked for accuracy.

Nurses who work in facilities that are beginning to transfer their patient records into electronic format may wish to become involved if they have the opportunity. Learning to use EMR systems and being there when the system goes into place can give nurses an enormous edge when talking of promotions, pay raises and even competition for positions in other facilities.

Nurses who do get involved in the execution process will have a set of skills that not every medical employee has. This could provide wonderful openings, but may also be trying if few people there have those talents and the nurses who do are often asked to stop their work to answer questions after the system is in place. That does provide job security and make them more valuable, however.

Nurses today are typically familiar and quite skilled with computerized processes, so that the learning process of handling medical records on rugged computers likely will not be a tough one. But adding another base of knowledge can only aid in improving career prospects.

The knowledge to train someone else on the system may also be valuable when staff is short or new workers come in and need to get thoroughly brought up to speed fast. In the way that using rugged systems can protect this patient information, using talented workers to handle the records at all points can also make sure the information is accurate and correctly handled.




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