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Monday, January 21, 2008

What is happening related to IT in my clinical setting.

In the operating room where I work as the clinical educator there is a lot of use of computers. All of the required education modules for nurses is online and my role is to instruct the staff how to access the education modules on the computer education site and then how to use the site to read and answer questions. As the clinical educator I am responsible to train all new staff including how to access computer information for education, email, and orientation information. All of the orientation, education, policies, procedures, and protocol files are maintained electronically. The operating room RN's do limited computer charting, but most of the patient information is accessible on the computer. All nursing staff are required to know how to access patient information and how to input information to order blood products and order laboratory testing. As the clinical educator I conduct and input audits for department compliance. These audits are all electronic. I also create PowerPoint presentations and education modules for the operating room staff. IT is very important to me to perform my job.
I see IT becoming as common as pens and papers in the operating room and the nursing profession as a whole.

2 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Gayle,

I have enjoyed your pp presentations. You combine knowledge with humor

January 22, 2008 at 8:38 AM  
Blogger Karin Kolbus, RN, COHN-S, CCM said...

Gayle
You are the perfect person for this role. Your presentations in our courses tell me you balance the technology of teaching tools with your personal touch. Your students know it is important to you that they understand the lesson, it then becomes important to the student too.

February 13, 2008 at 9:56 PM  

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