It's chaos, since this was not a planned outage, and many of the docs and nurses (including yours truly) have never used paper charting. We write our notes on paper but all of the flow charts we're required to use are on the computer and now we have to document on these arcane paper forms. The docs are lost when it comes to ordering things that we don't readily have in the ED.
And to top it all off, everything is running slow as molasses. The pneumatic tube system is overloaded, so it keeps shutting down, and we have to hand carry specimens to the lab. It takes forever to get results because the fax machines are taking up the slack and are busy all over the hospital. Two other area hospitals are on diversion, so we're getting slammed, and handwriting triages suck.
Wish me luck!
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Aye, digits crossed and all.
But I can't help but wonder... does that mean we're entering the Scissors age?
Wow, looks like they had a great plan in place for such an incident. I don't envy you. Hope it's fixed soon.
Dawn
That must be hell! We have become so dependent on computers that it feels like the world has come to a standstill when they don't work. I shudder to think how our ED would be affected if we had a similar situation to yours and couldn't access Wellsoft!
Hope it resolves for you soon!
I expect that you will receive glowing praise for your ability to cope with the "who'd a thunk it" disaster. Imagine computers being off line for an extended period.
A week later you will be reprimanded for the inevitable "missing" paperwork, from this non-Gutenberg time, that cannot be found on the computer system. If you did the work, why is it not in the system?
:-)
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