Jerijah Mobley for Launch Expanse. Launch a career.

Speaker: Jerijah Mobley, Consultant

Jerijah Mobley: My name is Jerijah Mobley. I work for CereCore as a consultant mostly for HCA projects helping with order management, documentation transitions of care. Also a little bit with our commercial projects for our hospital in Alaska, helping with some optimization.

Jerijah Mobley: Before CereCore, I worked as a nurse, a nurse for the last 18 years or so and I still pick up shifts as a nurse every now and then. I got involved maybe about 15 years ago helping in a hospital in New Mexico. I was a charge nurse and they got me to start helping with doing some documentation for nursing, rebuilding their care plans and such. And then I got involved in the IT side as analysts over there help with CPOE, BMV type stuff. And that transition to a different hospital in Georgia where I was a clinical analyst there for about 10 years. I worked for MEDITECH a little bit for their professional services and worked a little bit as a travel nurse.

Jerijah Mobley: So what have I learned from that experience? helps me today. Well, I was a difficult nurse to work with when it came to IT type stuff. I never really paid attention to the analysts that came around to try to teach us stuff. I thought they all were just a waste of time, but I learned how important the IT side can be and how we can really use it to leverage and really make life better for nurses, for doctors and for the patients. So I give our providers and our other clinicians a bit more leeway when it comes to their not really want to accept so much of technological aspect of things because I understand I used to be there also appreciate a lot, the need to be a team player. I like supporting my team, promoting my team, encouraging my team because if we have lift one person, it kind of lifts all of us. So that works well for nursing. It also works well for being a consultant.

Jerijah Mobley: So I have to say, my most memorable event at our implementation was when we were going to go live and all the nurses and doctors kind of banded together and decided that they felt the product wasn't ready and they didn't want to go live and they want delay their product indefinitely. We talked with them a bit to create videos for them, went through their fears, their concerns and one by one showed them what the solutions were and that the situation really wasn't as bad as what they thought. And eventually, less than a month later, we did actually go live and it was one of the smoothest, most successful go lives I've been a part of with relatively few issues. So taking care of that human aspect was so much more important than handling the technological one, but you can need both.

Jerijah Mobley: I would say the biggest thing to a person who's applying for the position to be a part of this Expanse roll out is you have to have a bit of patience, particularly if you're used to working on the commercial side or perhaps working at a smaller hospital, you're probably used to having a whole lot more autonomy than you would probably have on the Expanse project. The project is just so large. There's so many people, there's so many moving parts. You need to have so much more governance than you would if you're working for like a 50 bed 60 bed hospital. But it's so worth it because you have so many people helping to drive and make sure their ship is sailing in the right direction that probably not gonna miss too much. And if you do miss something, it's not just you, you're not by yourself. It's a whole group of people there together to make the project successful. So just kind of be patient when you're on board and be patient because the work might be a little bit slow, getting started, but it's definitely there and there's definitely a lot to do.