I work with Dr. Grauman above, and I can tell you that we and staff have been stressed. We have been using AC since mid-April and while we seem to all still think that we are heading the right direction, everyone is a little bit on edge. We have tried to be up front about the stressors and have tried to light-load our schedules. I would say we are working at 2/3 our usual. This gives more time for the front desk to input data (demographics did NOT come over perfectly from previous program), the nurses to do vitals and add medication list, and for us to do what feels like everything else. We are less likely to close out of the chart without sending it to ourselves (in which case - poof, it's gone), we have renamed our top ICD9 codes to something a practicing medical person can identify, we have our consultant rolodex in, and I have ALMOST learned to be sure that the diagnoses are coded BEFORE I go to request labs.
Yes, there is stress with staff. We are also stressed. The good news is that there is something new to be stressed about every few days :o) I guess that means we're making progress. We sort of got staff buy in before we made the move too - so we are sharing in the culpability for this situation.
