Haha yeah honestly I thought there would be more showing of how to do things in general. But it’s more like ask questions if you need help. Anyways hope we all survive #internlife
We have a scheduled Epic downtime tonight. This is fun.
My school had used portable phones so I am completely not oriented when it comes to using my pager. Getting paged 30 times sounds like a nightmare!
I shoulda kept track yesterday. Honestly it was a lot of pages but none of them were too too bad. Lots of "can she get maalox?" And "can he get ibuprofen?" Stuff like that.
I got paged many more times after that post and had to do an admission lolol
I think it must be the last few updates that are really annoying me. Also different hospitals have different versions of it. I just recall a time maybe a year ago where I was able to do a more seamless chart review without all the extra clicks I need to find the same info now. Idk maybe I can attempt to customize it a bit more. In my opinion it’s clunkier now than it was a year ago.
I wish people would use the epic chat more. Like for non urgent stuff. At my last hospital people did that and it reduced the number of pages a lot. Honestly why are pagers still a thing. Give everyone a secure phone or something. In 2020 there has to be better options
The phones worked so well at the one hospital. You didn’t have to drop what you are doing to go find a landline to call. There was no learning curve - it’s a phone, you pick it up. You want to talk to someone, you call them and talk to them. No sitting around waiting for a return, tethered to the landline you gave as the page back.
Yeah we have "volt" iphones with these portable chargers at my hospital. It's passed on from resident to resident at the beginning of a shift. Lets the nurses, pharm, consultants, etc. just text or call me directly. Most just text. Saves a bit of time me thinks, pagers are so outdated. I was technically given a pager day 1, but apparently nobody ever uses it, and I might get paged once during all of residency. Sorry to hear other places are still using them....
It’s good to know what’s out there! Maybe something like that can be suggested or turned into a QI project at some point.
One thing I dislike is calling family or getting any kind of collateral. Like, I can't stand it. I hate talking on the phone already and it feels so awkward.
Yes this is the most accurate thing ever.
It's funny because already at the end of my 4th year my notes got sloppy. As an intern someone recently gave me very good advice, nobody has ever saved a patient's life by writing a really good note. Ironically in my specialty, documenting a certain portion of the note IS very important, but nevertheless, good advice!
It is frustrating. I also get refill requests from the senior that graduated and im all... uhmmmmm
I feel like an idiot most of the time. Im also slow af with admissions. Im on a consult service this month and im slow because i suck at cardio and look up stuff constantly so i dont look dumb when presenting.
Yeah...Most everyone has been great. Except the clinic environment has been weird. I think partially due to social distancing. Like our computers are all spaced out and you’re assigned a computer. It’s awkward trying to get any help.
Definitely don’t feel like a doctor yet. There is so much I don’t know. I recommended a med the other day and the attending casually went “hmmm that’s probably not going to work because of (detailed biochem explanation of the receptor sites and meds the patient is already on)” and I think my jaw hit the floor realizing all that I had technically learned throughout school but had yet to synthesize in that way. So I’ve been trying to spend more time with pharm stuff on my own since then. I’m presently pretending that step 3 doesn’t exist and am really enjoying self-directed learning. I love my co-interns but have a lot of guilt about socializing because of the pandemic so I’ve been more of a loner than I want to be. I’m enjoying work but my circadian rhythms are so screwed up they don’t know what’s hit them but at least I’m doing a better job about exercising than I was in med school. I’m on a rotation where I get weekends off so this part feels like “wow I’ve made it” but the back end of intern year is going to be so rough so I’ll get what’s coming to me but maybe by then I won’t be making dumb EHR mistakes and having pharmacy call me to let me know I botched an order and then also the reorder?? I hope?
A lot of people seem to say around the six month mark they start feeling better lol
My main gripe with Cerner is that everything is so hard on the eyes. Is there no way to make the notes easy to read? Or the menus? The formatting is obnoxious.
YES! The formatting is terrible. It really makes a note hard to read. And stuff is so hard to find sometimes. Epic is more organized and user friendly when it comes to actually looking for stuff.
Yes!!!! Sometimes I just want to copy some phrasing from another note I just wrote or just quickly move between two patients.
It’s so annoying. I just copy the note into word and then delete it after. I cant just close every time i need to look up something.
I approve of your time management skills. #goals
My schedule got messed up lol i wish it was that simple hahah
A quiz for what?!?
It’s a medicine specialty quiz. I’m shook because I thought I knew the answers. So I don’t know what happened there.
I hate inpatient medicine.
I think with inpatient medicine the people who you work with can really make or break the rotation.
Notes all day long. Admissions, progress, discharges. The census turns over basically daily (babies lol).
Oh I see.So glad I don’t have to deal with babies lol. But hopefully they don’t have too much of a medical hx. The med recs on discharge are kinda ridiculous sometimes. People gotta stop putting older people on so many meds.I have the urge to discontinue so much.
Majority of the time they’re perfectly healthy and theyre in an out. I love babies honestly. Im doing well on this rotation and i get to hold babies whenever i want lol
Still in psych emergency services. The polypharmacy that comes through is UNREAL. I get so upset for these patients. Obviously depression is awful but ECT is also an option instead of trying to hit every possible receptor.
Also a lot of (older) patients have no idea what they’re actually taking. So I can’t imagine what it’s like when they’re at home with 25 prescriptions. With half of them being anticholinergic.
It’s also terrifying.
