Digital Images in Health Education from an Over 50 Nurse Perspective

I need to get up to date and use more technology in my practice.  I am over 50.  Sometimes, the over 50s are intimidated by the ease that young professionals use technology.  I am not totally tech incapable.  I use my Mac, my iPhone and my iPad.  I think you can see my bias for Apple products.  My son works for Apple and I am defiantly skewed in that direction.  I like an intuitive computer that can figure out what I am trying to do and make me look smart and computer savvy.


I am thinking about returning to patient care, but am intimidated by the electronic charting systems.  Sometimes clinics buy a system that is cheap or provided for free by some generous donor.  Well thanks a lot generous donor, but I need a charting system that is intuitive.


I tried to do some prn work at a local clinic but ran into their incredibly non intuitive EHR system.  I trained for three days on the system but gave up.  If I worked consistently then I would have the system down, but to work occasionally and fill in here and there, I am not sure.  

I imagined examining a sweet crying patient, with the whole family in the room, them speaking Spanish and me  speaking spanglish (obviously not my first language or I would have written Spanish), and trying to find my way around in a EHR system that was not  created for usefulness or simplicity but for malpractice lawyers. I need to find the creators of the EHR system and buy them a digital subscription to Simple Living.




Please leave me a comment about your EHR.  Have you found an EHR that is intuitive?


Oh well, since the title of this blog concerns digital images I need to get back on topic.


I found this wonderful set of images and graphics useful for patient education.  They are provided by the amazing Children's Hospital of Philadelphia otherwise known as CHOP (a very appropriate acronym for a hospital).  Use their search system to find other material for use in your specialty.  Their web site is incredibly useful and intuitive even for those over 50.


CHOP's Info