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There is a need for training in electronic medical records, basic computer literacy, and other medical technology.

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"Again, they're lacking experience. Sometimes it would be helpful if—you know, we do so much in the hospital environment with process improvement—and I don't know if there's a way to incorporate some of the PI tools or anything like that? And there are new technologies in the laboratory. Molecular is exploding, and they're not coming with a very strong molecular background. But it's such a changing science, so I don't have the answer for how we would incorporate that." Metro
"Some clinics are still paper-based, but there's a push towards the electronic medical record. And now, there's even a push that wherever you go, wherever you receive care as a patient, no matter what institution, that your medical record follows you, and that health care professionals have easy exchange of this health information. Some of us struggle with our hospitals and clinics to get us all connected. But I think that—and I would think this holds true for the nursing population as well—that having the IT savviness would be helpful. The people that are building interfaces may not understand the health care portion of it, and that leads to problems with the build. And IT services are very expensive, so you don't want to have to re-do them. But with the nurses coming out of school, and needing to use the EMR, and to chart everything electronically, I think that the new grads do it better than those of us that are used to using the paper. It is very complex. And, boy, if you are an RN and you also have the IT piece of it—or you if you are a laboratorian and you know the IT piece of it—then you can really leverage that. And you will be able to leverage it even more in the future, I believe, than you can right now." Metro