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A 3 page research paper/essay the uses a hypothetical hospital scenario to discuss the problems in shifting to computerized medical records, when the nursing staff is resistant. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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listed below. Citation styles constantly change, and these examples may not contain the most recent updates. Switching to Electronic Documentation by Kathie
Easter, October, 2012 -properly! Increasingly hospitals are shifting away from written documentation towards the use of electronic medical records (EMRs). This
frequently, however, causes conflict among nursing staff, particularly among those nurses who are not technology savvy and are, therefore, resistant to this change, For example, at a hospital were I
once worked, the hospital administration announced the implementation of computer system for the administration of all medications and the pyxis machine, which had previously been used in regards to administering
medications, would not be reserved for narcotics only. The new MAK system involved laptops that tables that could be rolled from one room to another and also laptops in the
patients room. Many members of the nursing staff, particularly older nurses, who had been with the hospital 20 or more years, were resistant and saw no need for the change.
As this indicates, the main antecedent cause of this conflict is, first of all, the unfamiliarity of many of the nurses with this technology, as they perceive it as just
one more factor to complicate their already complicated days still further. But, it is also true that the organizational structure of the hospital administration complicated this conflict by imposing this
decision on the nurses without including them in the process of decision making and then not allowing sufficient time in implementation to offer them a thorough orientation program that would
educate them and familiarize them with the system. Such an orientation program would, first of all, challenge the core belief that motivates resistance to this change, which is, the nurses
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