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Re:Report: 90% of nurses considering leaving the profession ... by cleandreams on Wednesday April 27, 2022 @10:10PM (#31188072)
>IT systems that they have to use were designed by people who have not talked with the workers who use them. They may have been designed with laws and compliance in mind. Nurses aren't the people who choose or pay for these systems. But, they use them a lot (maybe the most) and it's obvious they weren't taken into account when designing the UX. It's maddening for them. This one is big for product designers. Often we listen to the people who pay for it and miss out on the people who actually have to use it.

This!! I had a friend who retired early because she was literally being worked to death. A big part of that is the hours she spent after hours trying to deal with the new IT system.

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Re:Report: 90% of nurses considering leaving the profession ... by 1983nurse on Wednesday April 27, 2022 @10:30PM (#31188173)
Totally and completely agree! I spent hours when hospital I worked for 30 years, made our GI lab use the program for documentation and billing from the OR. It was abysmal. I tried and did the best I could with Cerner, but you can’t fit square peg in round hole- no one designing ever asked those that had the 30+ yrs of knowledge that could have developed a unit or specialty specific program. It just wasn’t THAT hard, but management wanted it to work with what they already paid for!
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