Nurses faced numerous challenges during the pandemic, particularly with the increased burden of electronic documentation. Surges in patient volume and visits led to rapid changes in nursing documentation, prompting diverse responses from regulatory and healthcare organizations. Nurses expressed safety concerns and struggled with changes, calling for national standards and regulatory support.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: ChatGPT, an artificial intelligence-driven, pretrained, deep learning language model, can generate natural language text in response to a given query. Its rapid growth has led to concerns about ethical use in academia.
Problem: The exponential rise in the popularity of ChatGPT, and concerns of academic integrity with its use, has raised concerns among faculty for how to best address this issue.
Comput Inform Nurs
February 2023
Clinicians across the globe face overwhelming dissatisfaction and burden with electronic health records due to poor usability and the sheer volume of data collection requirements. In the United States, electronic health records are noted to be a principal source of distress, dissatisfaction, and endless workarounds, leading to poor clinician performance and, ultimately, poor patient outcomes. The purpose of this article is to present a detailed review of a 2020 Texas pilot study.
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June 2020
The purpose of this project was to implement an improved rapid-deployment clinical decision support strategy for the detection and treatment of emerging and reemerging infectious diseases within an electronic health record informed by end-user satisfaction. After a review of the evidence and comprehensive workflow assessments, interdisciplinary focus groups were assembled to determine current infectious disease needs within the electronic health record and what guidance should be provided to clinicians to assist in making the best decisions for both patient care and population health. Education and reeducation issues were handled throughout the implementation process.
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