What do you think of electronic health records (MediTech Epic etc.)?

Nurses who use electronic health records (MediTech, Epic, etc), would you mind taking a couple minutes to give me your opinions on the following questions? (I am an RN working toward a BSN and this is for an Informatics project)

1. What do you think of electronic health records (MediTech, Epic, etc.).
2. What do you see as the pros and cons relative to workflow? (How does the use of computers and technology speed up or slow down your day, enhance or interfere with good patient care, etc?)
3. How does EHR help meet Joint Commission's patient safety goals. (The patient safety goals for hospitals are listed in the image below

What is the specific requirement of your assignment? Are you supposed to answer those questions with your own thoughts and opinions, or are you actually supposed to get feedback from other nurses? Have you asked nurses in real life, such as your colleagues?How do YOU think EHRs help meet JC's NPSGs?

PROS you can read the doctors orders, i would not work at a place with paper chartingcons the programers need to listen to bedside nurses on what would make the flow easier for us.

Quote from kloneWhat is the specific requirement of your assignment? Are you supposed to answer those questions with your own thoughts and opinions, or are you actually supposed to get feedback from other nurses? Have you asked nurses in real life, such as your colleagues?

Quote from nowim cleancons the programers need to listen to bedside nurses on what would make the flow easier for us.

We use Soarian. Definitely like orders being in the system and can't wait til progress notes are in there too. We are still double charting and some things we should be charting(patient education for example) is in a really nonintuitive place and gets missed a lot.

Use to love the days when we were nurses before we were attached to these cows.

I remember when the charts were all paper. The lab results appear faster, as soon as the lab has them, when they come up on computer. We used to deal with little lost slips of paper, or waiting a couple hours for the porter to come around with results. Otherwise, charting, entering orders, most everything else, I am neutral between paper and computer. Nursing can become a fill-in-the-blank profession when everything is on computer. I'd rather be able to grab a piece of paper and get it all written in one spot.

Pros: no questionable orders when attempting to read a doctor's chicken scratch (I don't think some of the ones I work with even qualify for being called handwriting it's that bad)quicker access to lab results (I've seen them before the lab even calls to report a critical value)Can be another safety check against med errorsCons: not really nurse friendlyI feel like my patient is the electronic bits on wheels instead of the person in the bedPatients don't really get the full attention of a nurse who is trying to put information into the computerNot really able to individualize to patientsDrop down boxes can be a pain- either so long it takes forever to scroll through and find the entry you want or far too easy to click on the wrong optionI honestly miss the days where I didn't really have to double and triple document everything. My OR record, if it were to be printed out, is 14 pages in our computerized system. When we were using paper records, it was all of 3 and I wasn't documenting information about anesthesia tasks (I have to put in the lines inserted, ASA, other information that isn't really in my scope of practice but needs to be in the chart, and by default the nurse, not the anesthesia provider, puts it in)