Meditech Frequently Used & Recent Menu Items (CS 5.6)
Mistakes break us out of our usual workflow and given a little curiosity, help us discover things we might not take time to learn on our own. When you're new to something, everything you see, looks like an option. What's this do? How's this work?
As we become proficient at our work, our brains develop routines that we execute without consciously thinking about each step. Without mistakes and deliberate practice, it is easy to develop tunnel vision.
Today I found the Recent and Frequent buttons on the right of my MEDITECH NPR Desktop. The buttons were there all along, but until I accidentally clicked the wrong button, I never saw them. Some days I seek out deliberate practice, on other days my mistakes create unexpected learning opportunities.
Sidebar: if you've used Windows XP, these features remind me of the personalized Start Menu. Frequently accessed application menu items float to the top of the Frequently Used list. Recently accessed menu items, appear in the Most Recent list. Recommend this time saving feature to your MEDITECH physicians and clinicians, you know the ones, who email you about how many mouse clicks it takes to do something.
It has been said, "whoever makes the most mistakes wins". While I can't recommend making mistakes as a strategy, I can say that learning from our mistakes is underrated. Learn more here in Eric's amazing post, titled: Career Calculus.
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