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, ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

The CMS is pumping the brakes on enforcing an Obama-era regulation that sought to improve quality of care and safety at nursing homes. Industry stakeholders welcome the move and said they need more ...

Keeping accurate documentation and nursing charts of your patients' information is sound business practice for your health care facility, doctor's office or clinic. All health care personnel should be ...

Professor and Associate Dean for Technology and Innovation, and senior scientist at the UAB Informatics Institute, Jacqueline Moss, PhD, RN, FAAN, first became interested in informatics as she ...