Perinatal documentation is challenging and complex requiring multiple documentation modalities. By customizing an academic EHR to parallel documentation in perinatal units, pre-licensure nursing students will learn and experience documentation standards and practice on the academic EHR. Student feedback and experiences will be recorded utilizing student surveys.
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July 2024
Electronic health records (EHR) are designed to promote patient safety, workflow efficiency, and communication (HealthIT.gov). Competency in the use of an EHR is essential for both undergraduate and graduate nursing students.
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July 2024
Workforce well-being and associated factors such as burnout, depression and documentation burden, have been identified as the highest concerns to be addressed. In academia, the new essentials of nursing practice including domain 8 for informatics and healthcare technology have become a focus for curricular revisions/enhancements. Our study focused on technology skills by using the technology of an academic EHR to measure baselines and progression of EHR use, sense of confidence, documentation competency, and post-graduation employer-based performance assessment.
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July 2024
Digitalization in healthcare and the increasing availability of data demand data literacy competences of nurses and other healthcare professionals including technical, ethical and communication skills. The international Spring School 2023 "Information in Healthcare - From Date to Knowledge" aimed at these competences covering interoperability, data protection and security, data analytics and ethical issues. These topics were embedded in the overall case of data-driven quality improvement for diabetes patients in a region.
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