1. How do you get nursing staff involved?
Jo Dickson
Lead Nurse – Informatics / CNIO
Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
E-prescribing Masterclass webex

2. Clinical leadership is key
If you always do what you always did…
…....you’ll always get what you always got
Florence Nightingale
The founder of modern nursing was a pioneer in the visual presentation of information and statistics to highlight seasonal sources of patient mortality in military hospitals.

3. Is there a role for nurses?
e-Prescribing systems help reduce the risk of medication errors to:
Produce more legible prescriptions
Alert for contra-indications, allergies and drug interactions
Guide inexperienced prescribers
Support timely and complete administration (reduce errors or omissions)
Access to further information
Clear guidance on what to do next
Improved formulary guidance and adherence
No more rewriting drug charts
Order sets
Discharge prescriptions prepared in advance
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The role of the nurse
Nurses as leaders at all levels of the organisation
Understanding of the impact of effective design and use of the IT system (always keen to test)
Partner with multiprofessional colleagues
Coordinate care across disciplines
Work to improve quality and safety
Advocates for engaging patients and families
Contributors to standardised care
Understanding that technology (when combined with best practice and evidence based care delivery) will improve the nursing care of patients
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The nursing role
Pre-implementation
Process mapping
Understanding of key challenges (including choice of devices)
Engagement with ‘end users’- building contacts
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6. Implementation support
Visible and accessible
a ‘can do’ team
Technical
Clinical - Translating ‘IT Speak’ ‘Nurse speak’
Training
Change management / transformation
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Post implementation
Ongoing contact/review
Involvement in policy/ process change
Benefits realisation
Product development
Facilitating feedback / Being a bullet sponge
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8. Real life technology “Can I have an ipad?”
Nurses need to embrace new technologies and try them out – touch and feel
But remember everyone’s different!

9. Think of eMedicines -Think of the team…
Clinical leadership is key but one person (or clinical group) cannot do it on their own
Electronic prescribing and medicines administration is an important and powerful innovation for the whole care team
All health care professionals must be involved in planning and implementation and remain involved as the system is used

10. Discussion / Questions
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