You are a charge nurse on a 32 bed Oncology Unit. Your hospital has just merged

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You are a charge nurse on a 32 bed Oncology Unit. Your hospital has just merged into a health system that is using EPIC. Your hospital currently uses Cerner. A decision has been made to switch vendors. You are very comfortable with technology but many of the staff that you work with are older and are fearful about having to adapt to another new EMR system. They are telling you that they chose Oncology because it is a high touch/lower tech area but now their practice is changing. You have been appointed as part of the hospital health information systems task force and will be a superuser on your unit when the new EMR product is implemented. Based on your readings and assignments in this unit, consider the following questions:

What information will you want to collect from staff to customize the EMR to the needs of your unit?

How can you create a sense of urgency among staff about the importance of EMR implementation?

What human factors will need to be considered in developing the staff training plan?

What are the potential benefits of switching to this new EMR system that you can discuss with staff?

What types of data might you want to capture from the EMR to help with clinical decision making?

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1)What information will you want to collect from staff to customize the EMR to the needs of your unit?

ans.EMR is electronic medical record which keeps the medical and clinical data of the patients gathered in providers office.Electronic health records are more useful and get the data beyond the data collected in providers office which includes more detailed information about patient

b)How can you create a sense of urgency among staff about the importance of EMR implementation?

ans.First they should known the uses of it we should make them assure that they can be more comfortable with this process.and we should also say that how it would increase the effieciency.

c)What human factors will need to be considered in developing the staff training plan?

ans.1)Assess Training Needs:They should known the needs of it.

2)Set Organizational Training Objectives:make some assessments which will identify the gaps in your training and employee skills.

3)Implement Training Initiatives: this is the implementation phase where the training is implemented to check the mistakes and rectify them.

4)What are the potential benefits of switching to this new EMR system that you can discuss with staff?

ans.EMR is more benificiary than paper records in many ways

5)What types of data might you want to capture from the EMR to help with clinical decision making?

ans.THese are the essentisal data from the EMR to help with clinical decision making

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