THE RN FLASH

Our story begins with a mild-mannered, typical nurse in standard-issue scrubs.  She cared for her patients as most in her profession do – with compassion, with care, and with a smidgen of frustration.

Doctors have the healing tools.  Techs have all kinds of fancy gizmos.  Why shouldn’t she have tools that enable her to leverage every morsel of her training against the insidious diseases that run up and down her hospital’s hallways? 

So she suffered in silence, sometimes wishing she had clairvoyance like a swami and arms of an octopus.  Then shaking her head “no,” as she thought how hard it would be to fit eight arms through the sleeves of her new Winnie the Pooh scrubs.

If only … if only there were a way to access patient information so fast you’d hear that big na-na-na-na-na-na Six Million Dollar Man sound.  If only there were a way to view results in a snap [imagine a snapping sound, gentle reader].

Then the answer came to her in a flash of light.  (Actually, it came in a piece of software, but let’s not be picky.)  It was from HMS, that famous company that’s made so many lives easier in this business.  And what came from HMS were three phenomenal, stupendous Point of Care tools.

One was Patient Care Documentation.  The second eMAR and the other, Clinical View.  The rest is history.  

No longer Nurse Milquetoast, with her vague sense of frustration.  She is now the RN Flash:  Bold.  Energetic.  Empowered.

Strengths: 
• Spends more time with patients by documenting tasks electronically at the bedside
• No longer walks 100 miles a day searching for patient charts – now accesses radiology exams, lab results and other historical data electronically in real-time
• Safely administers medications to patients as the system amazingly checks for interactions and charges upon administration
• Has lowered her blood pressure by 10 points because safety checks are built in and automatic

Weaknesses:  Chocolate.  Titanic on DVD.