Whose Chart Is It, Anyway? "The purpose of an EHR should be helping the end users (us) to be more efficient in charting and free up time for direct patient care," observed a Medscape reader. However, ...

The root causes of nursing burnout are varied – as are potential solutions for it. However, given that nurses are frequently responsible for clinical documentation, it's perhaps not surprising that ...

Maintaining high quality clinical documentation is essential for a number of reasons, including improved patient safety and better adherence to accreditation standards. Marie Boyd, administrator at ...

Clinical workflows continue to be a major source of inefficiency and frustration for nurses. Documentation, admissions, and medication reconciliation often remain manual, time-consuming and prone to ...

One approach to increasing the acceptance of new information technology is usability testing to determine user preferences and the functionality of the system. [3] Usability testing is a subset of the ...

Nearly 8 in 10 acute care nurses say they lose time each week to unproductive charting, and those facing the heaviest documentation burdens are significantly more likely to experience burnout and ...

In two recently published manuscripts, hundreds of nurses reported delays in care, suboptimal care, nursing moral distress, falsifying of nursing documentation, and loss of autonomy to use nursing ...

The Guidelines for Nursing Homes focus on practical recommendations for employers to reduce the number and severity of workplace injuries by using methods found to be successful in the nursing home ...

What are the preplacement requirements for NP Students and RN Prescribing Certificate Students? Please see our Pre-clinical Documentation Requirements Page for more information I completed these ...