Transitions from one EHR to another can be enormously disruptive to care. Nurses are the largest group of EHR users, but nurse experiences with EHR transitions have not been well documented. We sought to understand nurse experiences with an EHR transition at the US Department of Veterans Affairs. We used a mixed methods design, combining a cumulative 26 longitudinal interviews with 317 survey free-text responses and quantitative measures from a repeated cross-sectional survey, all from nurses at one of the first facilities to transition from the Department of Veterans Affairs' homegrown EHR to a commercial system. We conducted inductive/deductive content analysis of qualitative data and paired qualitative findings with descriptive statistics of survey questions. Analyses yielded insights about three key aspects of the transition: (1) EHR functionality: diverse perceived causes of challenges using the new EHR; (2) transition process: barriers and facilitators of nurses' EHR training and technical support; and (3) outcomes: nurse-perceived impacts on safety, quality, nurse satisfaction, and efficiency. Alongside improvements to EHR functionality, findings underscore the need for organizationally informed training and careful alignment between the new EHR and the organization's nursing practices-all of which have been undertaken by Department of Veterans Affairs nurses informed by this and other studies.
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