Iβm reading about impacts of Electronic Health Records on nursing care and morale (not my research area but kind of abutting it).
One thing that comes up is how the amount/density of information stored in these means theyβre not inherently more useful than a thick paper chart. You still need to both take in the whole picture and find specific info.
Sometimes itβs really well organized or easy to transfer a patient between units. Sometimes, even though it should be really good at communicating a medication schedule, it doesnβt and you miss meds. Or like one didnβt initially support breast milk as a feeding thing in NICUs. (They got it fixed)
It sounds like that depends a lot on whether it was a case the system was built to support or not.
@platypus I spent a lot of time in oncology and the amount of time nurses are away is astounding to me.