DIGITAL TOOLS IN MY WORK

I’ve worked in Kainuu Central hospital as an anesthesia nurse in operating room almost thirteen years now. Nowadays I am assistant service supervisor, but I still do clinical work 50 % of my work time. There is a lot of different tools which I use. For example in operating room I use LifeCare, our patient information system. It gives me very important information about my patient. There is for example drug list, allergies, diseases, laboratory results etc. If I don’t see all that information, it could be quite dangerous to take care of my patient. As an anesthesia nurse I must have anesthesia information system. It’s called Antti. Information from LifeCare must be written to Antti, for example diseases. Some informations, for example allergies go to Antti itself. When patient is in ventilator and I observe patients vitals, goes information directly to Antti automatically, so I don’t have to write it. There has been only six years, when we got electronic anesthesia information system. Until then we wrote all information to paper. It took a lot of time and it wasn’t so exact and didn’t get that much information than electronic system.

As an assistant service supervisor I use a lot of “HR desk”, where is information about our employees. For example when I keep orientation discusses, I write all information about it in there. From HR table I also see, if employee is in sick leave or doing lower working time percentage. It helps me to organize employees future shift planning. Also “Titania” is one of the most important tool, because my work is to do shift planning and Titania is tool to plan employees shifts. I think it’s quite difficult to me, because I’ve planned shifts only for 1,5 month now. Hope it’s getting easier the more I use it.

FIVE TOOLS OF SOCIAL MEDIA

Todoist. I visited pages and it seemed to be the top-ranked productivity app that brings clarity and efficiency to people. It encourages teams to focus, create and disconnect. There is email, chat and different forums for example. It seems to be helpful tool for different companies to organize different things.

Slack. It seems to be quite similar tool as Todoist. It has also forums, chat, different helpful tool to grow your company. It uses also AI. my mind comes Teams, which we use in my work.

Miro. It’s also visual tool to marketing. It helps teams to plan and build future together, as their website is telling. For example Nike and IKEA is using Miro.

TikTok. It’s familiar application to me, because I have the app in my phone. There were only dance videos, when I loaded it maybe six years ago. Different people around the world danced same dance, how funny! It is also very addictive app. It goes easily hour and you notice that you haven’t done anything else but watching TikTok. Nowadays there is much more than dance videos. There are companies, self-employed persons or singers and bands who advertise themselves. There is food videos and good recipes, Make up tips and lots more. In TikTok website says that TikTok helps to create new jobs, drives revenue for businesses and contributes to the growth of economies around the world. I think that nowadays it can be very good place to advertise your company in TikTok, because there is a lot of young people who watch videos rather than read some advertisements in newspaper for example. If video is interesting, you probably watch it and maybe buy what video is advertising. I have done it one time. It was some face serum and believed all it said. Well, it didn’t worked to my face.

Jodel. “The hyperlocal community, which connects you directly to people around you”, says their website. There you can do same things than in TikTok for example, advertising, telling stories and share videos. They advertises that you can be anonymous. I haven’t loaded Jodel and I think that Instagram, Facebook and TikTok is enough for me in social media. I’ve understood, that there are more younger people than me, so maybe content is not for me.

First three tools were quite same, helping to get your company to make more money, advertising better, helping everybody in company to keep touch easier. I haven’t realize how much different tools to help companies in this world have! How is possible that all of them get clients with advertising same idea? Maybe because I work in social and health services, I don’t understand those things at all. Only Teams and Zoom is all what I use. I can call video calls and share my screen during video call, that’s all I know! Thank God I’m not a manager in company ;). I think that many of them can be use in social and healthcare, Especially in private companies. There is bigger pressure to make many than in public services.

About TikTok and Jodel. I think that those are good place to advertise and give tips and experiences to people, but everything isn’t so nice and safe what comes social media. There is a lot of people who can see your post, somebody can be so sick that can even steal your identity. In Jodel you can bully anonymous and upset people with your words. Bullying is a big problem in social media, I think. It’s a lot easier to speak in some forum than tell things to your face. It’s also very sad that we had read that some young people had died during some TikTok challenge. Social media has a lot of bad sides, but if you use it responsible it can be very entertaining and instructive platform. Our ward is in TikTok and Instagram, and there is funny and instructive videos about our work. I think some people can learn about us, and maybe some young student sees that OR is the place to work in future, because our videos tell a lot of our work.

SELF REFLECTION

It was interesting to see and get known different websites which are helping to advertise for example, and giving tools to increase something bigger in your company. I learned, that lot of those different pages are quite similar, also in social media apps are quite same and same videos are rolling in Instagram and TikTok. You can learn and get help a lot of different tools and from social media, but you have to remember, that AI isn’t giving all the answers, which are true. So remember to doubt. And talk to your human colleagues, tools only help to do your job better, but nothing is better than good conversation with your work mate.