The Microsoft IT outage forced us back to the old pen and paper era. Our backup method of charting was slower due to the paperwork involved. Once the outage is over, all information has to be manually entered into EMR. Thus, twice the work and VERY time consuming.Needless to say, I hated every moment of the outage and hope there isn't another one for a long time.
It actually hasn’t occurred for a long time at my work place, but we have downtime computer and paper to use.
It didn’t really affect me at all.
I have Firstnet. It did not impact me at all.
Nothing is more bothersome than medical records electronically managed. The old process may have been slow, but effective. EHR is the biggest headache. Call me a dinasour.
I couldn’t do anthing like get my car fixed
The outage caused by Hurricane Beryl knocked out power to more than 2 million people, including senior independent living facilities. The loss of electricity led to stifling heat inside the buildings, posing a serious risk to the health of residents.
The power outage also took down the emergency alert system for residents, which meant constant checks on each resident, adding extra stress on the staff. The locks on doors leading outside deactivated in some facilities, forcing staffers to stand guard to keep residents from wandering. Despite being registered as a “critical load” customer, some facilities found that they were not prioritized for power restoration. Roughly 14 nursing homes and 30 assisted living facilities in Harris County were without power four days after the storm.
Power outages can result in loss of cooling or heating, food or medication spoilage, and compromised patient
monitoring systems. This event underscores the need for robust emergency preparedness plans in long-term care facilities, including backup power systems and effective communication with utility companies. It also highlights the extraordinary dedication and resilience of long-term care nurses in challenging circumstances.
Nursing education is unique and requires a balance between theoretical knowledge and practical skills. This often necessitates smaller class sizes to ensure personalized attention and effective teaching. Policies that increase credit hour production and class sizes may not take into account the specific needs of nursing education.
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Yes, the Microsoft IT outage impacted several critical services and systems. I affected our healthcare system, and we were not able to document in the EHR, nor were the invasive equipment and cardiac monitoring unable to efface with the ER, creating undue stress all around. It is pretty frightening that one little snafu could paralyze the country. We activated the incident command station until we were entirely online and running—Delay in reimbursement with the insurance companies.
Not able to access history or current media.
Paper charting is easy and quick. I prefer over computer charting and it doesn't ever go down, fail or crash.
we use downtime computer and paper work to over come Microsoft outage affect in our facility
Sucked could not chart
We had to rely on patients to tell us what the plan of care was. Scheduling errors.
Break out a pen and paper- remember how it used to be done!
It amazingly didn’t affect our hospital at Hca Kingwood.
This affected the entire healthcare community where the thought of patient Saftey and security was at the top of our minds. Along with that, we had to adapt on how to chart and how patients can still get the most effective care with limited access to their profiles
It made scheduling more difficult and patients and staff were more frustrated.
We mostly used Cerner or paper charting so it didn't impact us. Now we did just go through a cyber attack April-June 2024 where absolutely all technology failed. Like we couldn't do labs, imaging, all progress notes were hand written, etc. So the possibility of it happening was kind of scary.
I was unable to look at my patients plans of care or medications they needed to receive. Normally when our internet is out we use downtime to still be able to print MARS but even that was down.
Oh it doesn't effect my daily routine.
Had to paper chart and there was a learning curve
