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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Nursing documentation is often cited as a factor for nursing burnout, and many organizations are rethinking the approach to the old philosophy of "If it's not documented, it didn't happen." Banner ...

Nursing documentation is a cornerstone of contemporary healthcare, integrating systematic recording of patient observations, interventions, and outcomes with the aim of enhancing effective care ...

"While there is some skepticism among nurses, I believe that when applied in the right settings, artificial intelligence is far from a threat," says Hadassah Backman, CEO of Guardoc, a clinical data ...

Audit activity is expanding in the nursing home sector, with improper payments rising and nursing homes continuing to lead in documentation errors. As a ...

Imagine that you want to progress in your profession, but you’re unable to do so because of hard work, obligations to your family, or maybe the distance to the closest institution is too great. Many ...

In the past year, Jayson Phillips has taken calls from sick patients as a telephone triage nurse, driven big rigs across the country and now is caring for patients in their homes. The pressure of ...

Hand-in-hand with real-time charting is point-of-care documentation, representing another change in nurses' workflow ushered in by EHRs. The idea is that computer workstations would be located in ...