Hello and welcome to my first ever blog! I am Susanna Cohen and I am a midwife. I am currently in full scope midwifery practice with BirthCare HealthCare the University of Utah, College of Nursing faculty practice. In addition to this, and being a DNP student, I am the Director of Nurse Midwifery and Women's Health Nurse Practitioner Program at the U and I am the co-director of PRONTO International, a group of dedicated providers who do Obstetric and neonatal emergency simulation team-training in rural Mexico and soon in Northern Guatemala. Wow, was that a mouthful. I will be working on my web-writing this semester for sure. I am originally from Berkeley, California and have been in Salt Lake City for almost 4 years.
Currently in my clinical practice we are experiencing a complete overhaul of our medical record system. We started out slowly, but now we are "almost" completely electronic. I have to admit that I was completely overwhelmed by the transition, and was convinced that we were going to kill a patient because we wouldn't be able to access information or because we didn't know where to look for information. My coping mechanism was to run away to Mexico for 6 months where doctors still carry manual typewriters with them into the OR, and nurses chart (or rather rarely chart) on paper. My colleagues who have been using the EMR for 9 months, say they are just now beginning to see the time saving benefits, but I suspect my re-entry will not be so smooth.
Tomorrow is my first day back to clinic... here's hoping I won't be swallowed up by the tabs and smartpharses.
Cheers,
Susanna
