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We have been live with eMAR/BMV for over 3 years now. I just recently posed this question to our nursing staff as we currently have a mix of COWS and wallmount computers. All of our semiprivate rooms have a wall mount. The consensus from the nurses was that probably about 80% preferred the wall mounts. The biggest problem with the COWS relates to the weight of the carts, trying to get the carts over the threshold of the rooms, and the strain on the nurses backs. The pros for the COWS are that the nurses don't have to log in to each room they go into and then log back out, and the fact that they have storage on the COWS and can carry around needed supplies. The wall mounts obviously are conveniently located next to the bed, but that can be a problem if you have talkative families or patients in the room and are trying to document, so even if you went to wall mounts I would still recommend having some COWS available to give the nurses the option to document outside of the room if it is not conducive to do so in the room. Rob Messner, RN Clinical Systems Analyst Trident Medical Center Office: 843-797-4109 Fax: 866-231-3096 -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Warren Matiko Sent: Tuesday, August 01, 2006 10:41 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [MEDITECH-L] Cows,Cabs vs Wall Mounts All messages should be posted in plain text. HTML will be converted to attachments. The meditech-l web site is MTUsers.com ====================================== _______________________________________________ meditech-l mailing list [email protected] http://mtusers.com/mailman/listinfo/meditech-l
