EMR Training and Practicing

VIDEO – EMR Phase 2.1 training overview 

 

Who needs to complete EMR Phase 2.1 online WeLearn training?

All staff who work in the EMR Phase 2.1 key clinical areas will need to complete online WeLearn training before the July Go-Live

The EMR Phase 2.1 key clinical areas are:

  • Cancer Services​
  • Emergency Department and Access​
  • ICU ​
  • Perioperative, Theatre and Anaesthesia​
  • Specialist Clinics (including Community clinical documentation)​
  • Women’s and Children’s

 

Staff who currently use the EMR outside the EMR Phase 2.1 key clinical areas will have access to new functionality with the Go-Live and so may also need to complete WeLearn lessons

This will be determined by the following three questions.  Staff who answer yes to any of the following three questions will need to complete the associated lesson.

  • Do you need to review patient information in ED?
  • Do you need to complete passports to surgery?
  • Do your patients require enteral feeds?

The estimated time it will take to complete WeLearn training will be noted on each training package.

The WeLearn package does not need to be completed in the one session, it will be saved as you progress through it and can be returned to at a later time.

Please contact the Digital Health Training Team if you have any queries – WHS-EMRTrainers@wh.org.au

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What steps do staff who work in an EMR Phase 2.1 key clinical area need to follow?

Follow these simple steps to get started:

  1. Login to WeLearn
  2. Search ’EMR Training Hub’
  3. From the menu, select your discipline, and then your area, before completing the required lessons

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What steps do staff who currently use the EMR outside the EMR Phase 2.1 key clinical areas need to follow?

Follow these simple steps to get started:

  1. Login to WeLearn
  2. Search ’EMR Training Hub’
  3. From the menu, select your discipline

4. Select the All Other Areas option, as shown below.

 

 

5. You will then be asked the three questions listed towards the top of this page. Staff who answer yes to any of these questions will need to complete the associated lesson.

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How can we practice in the EMR Phase 2.1 practice environment?

Practicing what has been learnt in training is immensely important to help further increase understanding. You have access to the EMR practice environment via the EMR Super Users for your area.  Each Super User received an EMR practice environment login as they completed their training and have been encouraged to share this with their colleagues.

This practice environment is not linked to the EMR system that is used in everyday work, and the patients in the practice environment are test ones, not real. The system is refreshed every night so the test patients are re-set for more practice the next day.

The practice environment is a simulated EMR environment and may look slightly different and contain less patient information compared to the real EMR environment

 

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What should I do if I feel I need further training or support?

Any staff member who completes their WeLearn lessons, and feels they need further support, is welcome to attend a face-to-face classroom training session with a Digital Health trainer. Staff who prefer classroom training can also book into these face-to-face classroom training sessions. Please check with your manager before booking in.

Face-to-face classroom training sessions commenced on 5th June 2023 and will be available for four weeks until Friday 30th June. Sessions will be held at the Footscray, Sunshine, Williamstown and Sunbury sites.

Please click here for a step by step guide on how to book EMR Face to Face Training

 

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Super User Training

Super User classroom training ran for 8 weeks from Tuesday 11th April until Friday 9th June.  Thank you to the almost 1,000 EMR Super Users who completed training!

Please note that only Super Users who have completed Super User training will be able to provide Super User support during the Go-Live period.

If you have questions about the Super User program please contact Arshpreet Dahiya (EMR Super User Lead): arshpreet.dahiya@wh.org.au

 

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Online learning packages – EMR Phase 1 functionality

Discipline specific online learning packages for the current EMR functionality are available on  Welearn: Log in to the site for the following disciplines:

  • Allied Health 
  • Clerical  
  • COVID Community Pathways 
  • Nursing: Drug Health Services, dialysis, ED, ICU, paediatrics, specialist clinics, theatre, ward 
  • Medical: anaesthetics, comprehensive course – HMO’s, ED, ICU, mental health, neonates, specialists clinics (OPD) 
  • Midwives 
  • Pharmacy 
  • Pharmacy Technicians
  • Phlebotomists 
  • Radiology 
  • Research 
  • Technicians 
  • Staff members with view only access 

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EMR training queries

Please contact the Digital Health Team: WHS-EMRTrainers@wh.org.au