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Evaluating the barriers to point-of-care documentation for nursing staff.
- Source :
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Computers, informatics, nursing : CIN [Comput Inform Nurs] 2012 Mar; Vol. 30 (3), pp. 126-33. - Publication Year :
- 2012
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Abstract
- Point-of-care documentation has been identified as a patient safety measure for improving accuracy and timeliness of data. To evaluate the barriers that nurses and nurse aide/clinical technicians encounter for electronic point-of-care documentation, we conducted surveys on a telemetry unit at a southwestern Pennsylvania community hospital. Our first survey revealed that the location of the in-room computers, perceived lack of in-room computer reliability, Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act/privacy concerns, and perceptions of the patients' response to charting on computers in patient rooms were all barriers to point-of-care documentation. Our second survey revealed that workflow priority issues were also a barrier to point-of-care documentation, as staff members did not rate documentation as a high priority in terms of delivering timely medical care. Changes in both nursing practices and hospital infrastructure may be needed if these barriers to point-of-care documentation are to be overcome.
- Subjects :
- Adult
Aged
Female
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act
Humans
Male
Middle Aged
Nursing Evaluation Research
Nursing Methodology Research
Qualitative Research
United States
Workflow
Young Adult
Attitude of Health Personnel
Electronic Health Records statistics & numerical data
Nursing Records
Nursing Staff, Hospital psychology
Point-of-Care Systems statistics & numerical data
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 1538-9774
- Volume :
- 30
- Issue :
- 3
- Database :
- MEDLINE
- Journal :
- Computers, informatics, nursing : CIN
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 22024972
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1097/NCN.0b013e3182343f14