Daniel Catt
May 2021
Daniel
Catt
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RN, BSN, ENB100
Cerner Corporation
Cerner Corporation
As Dan was now back in his ‘day job’ at Cerner, he was working weekend shifts and in some cases taking annual leave days so that he could support his local ICU as the demand for skilled Nurses sky-rocketed.
Back in the summer of 2020, Dan was due to take his 13-year LTSA , and of course, because of the ongoing pandemic and national lockdown, he wasn’t able to complete his planned voluntary portion of the 4 week extended leave. Instead, Dan decided to devote himself to his true passion by going back to Nursing. He used his LTSA time to complete the necessary training courses and online Nursing requirements to renew his Nursing registration. He was able to start picking up bank shifts at his local hospital, working as a senior staff Nurse in the ICU. As Dan was now back in his ‘day job’ at Cerner, he was working weekend shifts and in some cases taking annual leave days so that he could support his local ICU as the demand for skilled Nurses sky-rocketed.
As well as the excellent clinical work Dan was doing in the hospital, he recognized the value of sharing his unique insights with Cerner colleagues and took it upon himself to share a series of blogs, charting his experience. The blogs were hugely well-received by colleagues – people (including me!) were so appreciative to read his first-hand experience and to hear what it was really like on the front line. As well as understanding more of the complications and treatment methods for COVID-positive patients, Dan explained about PPE and proning patients – things that the everyday associate just wouldn’t necessarily know about or understand.
Dan’s blogs were so well written that people were able to ask questions, share their own thoughts and experience, and just thank him for taking the time to share. Dan has also spoken at the UK Town Hall, internal podcasts, featured in the UK quarterly newsletter , and spoken at various team meetings.
Dan has also worked with internal teams to provide constructive feedback on his experience of working with an EHR – particularly given his unique perspective working for a supplier. His insight of using a system firsthand really helped him to understand some of the challenges faced during workflow design. The hospital where he has been working is actually a Cerner client and while they have limited digitized content to date, they are due to be implementing critical care workflows during this year. Dan will be well placed to not only support that implementation, but also to provide feedback internally on design and use of the system in the ICU.
As well as the excellent clinical work Dan was doing in the hospital, he recognized the value of sharing his unique insights with Cerner colleagues and took it upon himself to share a series of blogs, charting his experience. The blogs were hugely well-received by colleagues – people (including me!) were so appreciative to read his first-hand experience and to hear what it was really like on the front line. As well as understanding more of the complications and treatment methods for COVID-positive patients, Dan explained about PPE and proning patients – things that the everyday associate just wouldn’t necessarily know about or understand.
Dan’s blogs were so well written that people were able to ask questions, share their own thoughts and experience, and just thank him for taking the time to share. Dan has also spoken at the UK Town Hall, internal podcasts, featured in the UK quarterly newsletter , and spoken at various team meetings.
Dan has also worked with internal teams to provide constructive feedback on his experience of working with an EHR – particularly given his unique perspective working for a supplier. His insight of using a system firsthand really helped him to understand some of the challenges faced during workflow design. The hospital where he has been working is actually a Cerner client and while they have limited digitized content to date, they are due to be implementing critical care workflows during this year. Dan will be well placed to not only support that implementation, but also to provide feedback internally on design and use of the system in the ICU.