Lately the charting app times out mid-round and wipes what I typed, so I end up redoing notes at the end and staying late. It happens a lot during 5 am vitals when the Wi‑Fi hiccups or I get pulled into a call light, which is kinda annoying and messes with handoff. How do you keep from losing entries when it logs you out or you have to bounce room to room? Quick fix that actually helped this week: I started hitting Save Draft after each room and it kept the text when I reopened, even if the session died. If there’s a better workaround that doesn’t slow the flow, i’d rather use that.
Same here — if Wi‑Fi hiccups the session dies and poof, note’s gone. IT bumped our timeout to 60 min and I started drafting in Notepad and hitting Ctrl+A/C before I step away; also turned on the EHR’s autosave/drafts. Can your IT extend the timeout or enable autosave?
@falcon I got burned by this too — now I drop a quick placeholder (like “.” + initials) and hit Save/Save Draft every room change so the note locks in and I finish it when I’m back; it survives Wi‑Fi hiccups and logouts. Does your EHR have a draft/in‑progress save?
Ugh, this drives me nuts at 5 am vitals too. What helped was entering the vitals straight into the flowsheet first (ours commits each field instantly) and saving the narrative for last so a timeout only risks the blurb, not the data. Does your system have instant-commit on flowsheets or an auto-recover setting?
One low‑tech fix that’s saved me: turn on Windows clipboard history and use “Win+V” to pull back whatever you just typed when the chart kicks you out; quick how‑to: https://support.microsoft.com/windows/clipboard-in-windows-10-1fb3b4bd-9a0f-977f-60b8-8cf3c8dee2f7. If you’re on shared WOWs, the only caveat is some units lock that setting — can you toggle it on where you’re?