Electronic Intensive Care Unit

The electronic medical record system (EMR) serves many purposes in an emergency for the patient, physicians, and hospitals involved in the diagnosis and care during an emergency.

Patients orders and medications will be recorded on the electronic health record, EHR, before the end of each shift. This is to ensure the next shift will have all the information that is needed for the continuation of care. The computers will time out when not active for the specified amount of time and employees would be required to lock the computer before walking away. Any monitors in patient care areas would have screen shields that block the view of PHI.

By making health information accessible across an entire Acute Care System, Cerner EHR facilitates improved safety, care and coordination by providing clinicians with real-time health information, so that they are able to make more accurately informed decisions. Their electronic health records system eliminates the need for hand-written documentation, provides medical records clarity, improves accuracy and reduces errors. Cerner’s customizable applications were specifically designed to streamline both administrative and clinical tasks. These automated processes, ensures health care professionals are better equipped to maintain and perform all key administrative manipulations of clinical data relevant to each patient of record. Cerner EHR also

Besides receiving quality care, one of the biggest concerns (AKA demands) your patients will have is continuity of care. Your urgent care center should be able to share information with patients’ primary care physicians regarding any care that was received in your facility. An EHR solution can make this incredibly

The name of their electronic monitoring system is the VitalPAC. The VitalPAC allows nurses to plug in information about their patients easily onto an iPAD. This accurately records what time treatment was giving and what dosages were given. This method helps staff members do their jobs but also holds them accountable for their actions. With electronic monitoring a timestamp records exactly when a patient received treatment. Electronic monitoring records who the caregiver was taking care of the patient and where the treatment took place. The benefits of electronic monitoring are immeasurable. “We welcome technology that improves the care we can offer, but it will never replace the face-to-face contact that our patients value” (Downey, 2015). Oswestry Orthopaedic Hospital is the first orthopaedic provider to adopt the electronic system. The system replaces all paper charts and makes everything paperless which is beneficial to the facility keeping everything organized and taking up less space. Electronic file saving also reduces the loss of records in case of a fire or other natural disaster. VitalPAC is very helpful to nurses producing an observation chart automatically and calculating an early warning score. Calculating a warning score can be very time consuming if done manually. “Recording vital signs data regularly and accurately is central

Cerner integrates patient information throughout all of the departments within a hospital setting. This program also has the ability to expand into other health care facilities within a community, such as long term care, hospice, and home health (Cerner, 2015). Cerner offers community hospitals solutions in their “Software as a Service” model. Cerner will host the software program, provide upgrades, and monitor performance to ensure stability. This will allow community hospitals to have a predictable cost for the software (Cerner, 2015). Another advantage of this system is the “Smart Room”. Wireless devices such as infusion pumps, and vital sign monitoring devices can access the system. This allows for instant documentation of this information into a patient chart and will alert if abnormalities are noted. Bar code scanners and carts are available as well. These items improve patient safety (Cerner, 2015). Cerner is capable of CPOE, electronic prescription transmitting, and has the ability to capture data and immunization statuses to meet reporting regulations.

They are able to perform patient care by IV and oral medication administration, cardiac monitoring, airway management, blood transfusion, wound care etc… They are accountable to implement family central patient care.

A perioperative nurse’s role is to be the hub of all activity in the surgical setting, they are expected to be clinician and technician, in addition to being a patient advocate during a patient’s procedure (Sweeney, 2011). Therefore, the perioperative nurse is expected to be skilled in managing electronic equipment during the procedure (Sweeney, 2011). An EHR is necessary, so multiple departments within a hospital setting may access patient information. Cerner is the system explored in this paper, utilized by the Alaska Native Medical Center (ANMC). Cerner has its own perioperative solutions portion. This solution consolidates pre-operative,

The orders are then communicated over the network to the staff in the departments of the hospital, to give them treatment instruction on a given patient. The images can then be captured, and then stored. After that they are made available for the purpose of analysis by physicians. The physicians do not have to do analysis while at the hospital; they can do it anywhere anytime, even at their respective homes.

Einstein Medical Center, located in North Philadelphia, is a leading Level 1 Regional Resource Trauma Center and Certified Stroke Center. The facility has 772 beds and maintains one of the busiest emergency rooms in Philadelphia. Einstein’s emergency department treats over 95,000 patients each year, providing cutting edge care to patients with a wide variety of illnesses and injuries. The emergency department utilizes start-of-the-art systems to assist physicians and enhance patient care such as “digital radiography, and ED-based CT scanner, the Vocera Phone System, emergency bedside ultrasound, automatic patient tracking, and much more” (Einstein Medical Center Philadelphia). Despite the advanced care options, the recent passing of

The ability of the EMR to store large amounts of data and combination of continuous monitoring creates a potential for information overload in the NICU. There isn’t a continuous monitoring in units such as medical-surgical units decreasing the likelihood of information overload when compared to intensive care units. With less potential dangers motivating this information overload relate to the better ability of practitioners to differentiate pertinent from irrelevant information. Additionally, the accumulation of errors of cognition and performance associated with data corruption risk is reduced in non-intensive care units.

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Everything will be scanned onto the computer such as the patient’s personal information, medical history, medicines that were prescribed to the patient or any medications that the patient is currently taken, and any diagnosis the doctor has concluded to including any referrals to any specialists. The system itself does cost money to attain plus to install the software onto all of the computers will also cost money since an IT technician would have to be called in order to get everything running correctly. Also training staff on how to use the system will take time.

Visit your local Emergency Room on any given day and you are likely to witness a sort of controlled chaos: nurses, doctors, transporters, patient care technicians, and other ancillary staff members all darting about, attempting to meet the needs of increasingly sick patients in oft-overwhelmed and overpopulated hospitals. All around, various alarms sound. IV pumps signal fluid bags about to run dry. Vital sign monitors ping at differing volumes and intensities, in an electronic demand for staff to mind the out-of-normal-range