Inherent with the use of E-Mar is a more complex system that adds additional steps and additional points in the process where the nurse needs to wait for steps within the process to occur. In addition to compromising working conditions for nurses by adding complexity and demands on their time, the time it takes for a patient to receive a medication once it's ordered has increased dramatically.
Remember the days when the goals were to get a new antibiotic administered within two hours after the physician has ordered it. Think that sa still happening? I don't.
