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, ...

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

WALTHAM, MA--(Marketwired - May 23, 2013) - Responding to the call from emergency department (ED) providers for improved nursing documentation, Forerun, Inc. (www.forerunsystems.com), today introduced ...

This article is sponsored by WellSky. As long-term care providers face tighter staffing, heavier documentation loads, and ...

Across healthcare, efforts to advance documentation are often focused on enhancing physicians’ workflow. But at Baltimore-based Johns Hopkins Hospital, leaders are equally focused on improving ...

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 ...

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 ...

Let’s face it. Nursing documentation can get you in trouble with your supervisor, make a surveyor faint, make a lawyer rich or make blog readers laugh. I’m going for the last here. So doing a search, ...

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 ...