> N these cases there is a point that those 30 minutes may stretch to a n > hour or so if the software was changed. Given that most nurses are > overworked anyway would this make sense?
They were actually wasting more time than that. They hadn't been set with area for common file access on the ward. Thee was one spreadsheet in particular where they kept the latest information about each of the patients in the ward. The staff on one shift would fill in the reports and save them, and the staff coming to the next shift would be unable to access the files, so they would go back to the last record that they had personally saved (and after a holiday that would be pretty old), and then edit it to re-enter all the data from a paper copy given to them on the hand-over, before updating it. Or sometimes they managed to get the edits done but then found they didn't have the file permissions to save it in the area they found themselves in, so they'd print it out and lose the electronic copy. Guess who ended up going in as an unpaid consultant to train the nurses and tell their IT department what was needed. - (the IT dept still haven't found a way of enabling the spell checker in MS Office). Actually, with the lack of computer literacy of the staff, it would have been more cost effective to give them QLs (my wife is only now getting to grips with the PC, but she was using Quill 14 tears ago quite happily). Microsoft Office is too complex for many users. It intimidates them. > I have built several wireless systems and not had a problem yet. At one > point at home I had three machines talking and they were XP on my > laptop, 2000 on the desktop and 98SE on my wife's machine. I've built several too. That is the only time I have had a problem and I don't know why. Possibly one of the cards was defective; or perhaps it was the drivers, or perhaps it was a conflict with something else on the system. Jeremy _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List
