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Network: April/May 2008
Network Asks…How Does Sentara eCare Health Network® Help You Improve Health Every Day?
 “Sentara eCare® helps me improve health every day by making us more efficient and enabling us to access more complete information. It represents a major change in our work flow and process. The information that we put into Epic is just the beginning – we will build on that information and, in the future, it will be there from admission to admission to admission. It is great for accuracy and historical purposes. A year from now we will wonder why we felt threatened by the change.”
— Penny Burd, RN
Clin Nurse II
Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory
Sentara Leigh Hospital
Years with Sentara: 20
 “Sentara eCare® helps me improve health every day by enhancing the continuity of patient care. It allows me to be the most informed that I can be about my patients without having to take time away from them to decipher notes. Having all of this information at my fingertips helps me when I go to educate a patient’s family members about what is going on with their loved one. I have an optimistic attitude when I meet with the family, which gives them more reasons to feel confident in the care and customer service they’re receiving.”
— Jennifer Burns, RN, ICU
Staffing Support Services
Sentara Leigh Hospital
Years with Sentara: 6
 “Sentara eCare® helps me improve health every day by facilitating better communication between providers. With Sentara eCare® I can, at a glance, see all of my patients' orders for the day on one screen rather than having to flip through four sheets on a paper chart. I can see when their vital signs are due, what their diet is, what medications they’re on, if they’re scheduled for a CT scan. I like to let my patients know what their schedule is like for the day as much as possible, and the Sentara eCare® system helps me do that.”
— Christy Jones, RN
3A Post-Operative Surgical Floor
Sentara Leigh Hospital
Years with Sentara: 1
 “I improve health every day by helping our pharmacists get comfortable using Sentara eCare® for the full advantage of the patient. With Sentara eCare® we have a multi-disciplinary approach to patient care. Pharmacists today know more about disease states than ever before so it is helpful to know about a patient’s individual situation, what they’ve been admitted for, and to have the whole picture in front of us when we get consulted for a particular medication. If I have a question about the nutritional plan for a patient, for example, I can actually read the nutritionist’s notes and better understand what we’re doing as a team to help this patient.”
— Brad Myers, PharmD, BCPS
Clinical Pharmacy Specialist, Inpatient Pharmacy
Sentara Leigh Hospital
Years with Sentara: 4
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