One of my assignments is training our weekend and evening Chaplain Associates how to use the electronic medical record to enter their visits to patients.  We are implementing new changes to the screens this week.  So tonight we are meeting in our Information Technology Classroom where everyone will be able to watch in the screen as I explain the changes to the screen and the responses entered.

We will also get to improve the consistency of entries by going through some common situations and showing the preferred way of making these entries.  Each Chaplain will be given a scenario and then will direct me on what they would enter in the computer.  Before save the entry I will show the preferred way if the entries they give vary from our format.  All of this is being done on a test system so it will not affect the data of any patient.

Teaching is small part of the time allotment of my job description.  However I do enjoy the time to teach and to listen to students which in the end helps everyone on our team work in synchronization, which is difficult since we also work so independently.