Module 2 information system

At my previous hospital, DRMC in St. George, the nurses on our floor decided to get involved in improving the system we used for charting. We discussed, in several small groups, how to improve our charting by changing and adding to the sections that automatically "popped up" in our patient assessment charting. Patient Education/Teaching was being done but not being charted. We asked for this section to be a required area every day. In order to improve our flu and pneumonia vaccination numbers we asked that vaccinations be a required area of charting. At the moment I am looking into what can be done to improve the time between the dictation of physician progress notes and their transcription to HELP 2, the EHR we use.

Module 1, #1

Hello everyone,
I started the distance ANP program in January this year, and so far it's been great, stressful, but great. I live in Cedar City, Utah with my husband and 4 of our children.
I've been an RN for 7 years. I spent 5 years on the Medical/Oncology floor at DRMC in St. George, 2 years as a hospice nurse and the last year as a house supervisor at our hospital here.
I've worked in healthcare since 1987. IT has come a long way since my first days as an MA in a physician's office. The Med/Onc floor I worked on until last year started computer charting in 2006 and added medication scanning in 2007. The program we use is a DOS based system that I am hoping gets upgraded to the 21st century soon.

The beginning

I am very new to this idea. I created a blog once before, but haven't used it since I made it because I couldn't find it. When I followed the "blogging cheat sheet" and signed into google - there it was! I'm going to have to be careful about posting in the correct blog because the other one is for political opinions and debates.
This could end up being a great networking tool.