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Increasing Sequential Compression Device Compliance to Decrease Venous Thromboembolisms and Improve Nursing Documentation
… improvement project. Currently, SCD usage and nursing documentation compliance have been consistently below performance standards. Therefore, the aim of this quality improvement project is to increase SCD compliance in order to decrease the incidence of VTEs and improve nursing documentation. …
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The storied experiences of registered nurses' transition from paper to electronic nursing documentation
… who have transitioned from paper to electronic nursing documentation and to provide a foundation for others who may be preparing to implement electronic documentation and wish to consider the significance of these nurses' stories of change in their own contexts. The study was guided by one …
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Information Use with Paper and Electronic Nursing Documentation by Nurses Caring for Pediatric Patients
… aimed to investigate the use of electronic nursing documentation as a strategy to improve the quality of care provided to hospitalized patients. The literature to support the use of electronic nursing documentation on the quality of care delivered to patients is limited to date. …
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What are the barriers and enablers to using the focus charting format in the hospital setting?
INTRODUCTION Nursing documentation is an important factor in providing safe and effective healthcare to patients. In a review of nursing documentation at a large hospital in New Zealand, it was noted that there was sparse patient focused information and a fragmentation of the nursing process. A …
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Exploratory Study of Documented Psychosocial Nursing Interventions within the Palliative Care Setting
… of psychosocial care at end-of-life (EOL). Nursing documentation provides an effective strategy for assessing quality of care. The objective was to assess the quality of documentation processes for EOL care and to identify the degree to which a process-based approach was utilized. A case …
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Improving Stroke Documentation on a Stroke Unit
… this project is to improve adherence of stroke documentation per stroke protocols on a stroke unit at an acute hospital setting through nursing education and EPIC modifications. A comprehensive retrospective data collection was done to determine the inconsistencies of nursing documentation per …
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Improving the use of the nursing process: the impact of charting methodology developed from King's conceptual framework on the use of the nursing process
… study was to assess the effects of changing a nursing documentation system, developed from King's Conceptual Framework, on the use of the nursing process. The null hypothesis was that there would be no significant increase in the reflection of the use of the nursing process on the nursing care …
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Meeting Joint Commission Compliance by Improving the Chart Audit Process
… identifying and improving deficiencies in the nursing documentation of patients’ charts. In order to do so, a redesign of their current chart auditing system needed to occur to take the process from pen and paper to an electronic database where the data gathered from the audit could be …
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eHospital Safety Net ProgeHospital Safety Net Program: Defining the Transfusion Care Gap
… eHospital team of nurses evaluated the frontline nursing documentation tool in the electronic medical record and developed a list of critical documentation items related to safe transfusion administration. A series of five PDSA cycles were conducted during February, 2015, to refine the critical …
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Identifying Patients with Cancer at Risk of Experiencing a Fall While Hospitalized
… medical records revealed variations in the nursing documentation of fall risk factors that could increase the chance of assessments being omitted or communicated inaccurately to other members of the care team. Additional studies are needed to examine risk factors for falls in hospitalized …
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Implementation of an Evidenced-based Practice Curriculum to Improve Nursing Practice for Epidural Administration and Monitoring
… Health Care Services (VAPSHCS). Historically, EA nursing care at VAPSHCS has been managed by surgical units. However, in the last two years, facility restructuring and budget constraints have led to reorganization and consolidation of units. The reduction in units providing nursing EA care has …
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THE ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORD FUNCTIONALITIES IN THE STATE OF KANSAS WITH REGARD TO NURSING PRACTICE
… hospitals in the state of Kansas with regard to nursing practice. From the perspective of the Chief Nursing Officer, what was the nurses' role in implementation of the electronic health record, what nursing documentation was in the electronic health record, and what factors led to the acceptance …
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Postoperative pain : nursing management and organisational commitment
… Yorkshire region (n=35) and the second explored nursing care of 120 patients admitted to four English hospitals (two with an acute pain service) through nonparticipant observation, patient interviews and examination of nursing documentation. The questionnaire results highlighted increases in …
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A Quasi-Experimental Study Evaluating a Reflective Teaching Method, as Measured in the Writing of Nurses' Notes
… the evaluation of this method was measured using nursing documentation. The hypotheses of the study were (a) the documentation of the experimental group will show more evidence of critical thinking when compared to the documentation of the control group, and (b) the non-traditional student will …
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Fetal Heart Monitoring, Nursing Surveillance, and Cesarean Birth
… of this study was two-fold: (1) to examine nursing assessment of fetal heart rate (FHR) tracing and their interventions (nursing surveillance) in response to identification of an FHR tracing consistent with category II pattern and (2) to identify whether nursing surveillance and frequency of …
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Mental health nursing attitudes towards patient involvement in risk assessment as part of recovery focused care
… taken at a single time point from all current nursing documentation in three under 65 acute psychiatric wards within an NHS health board. This served to survey frequency of risk assessment completion and involvement of service users within the process. The study also looked at whether the risk …
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Implementation of a care bundle model for pressure injury prevention, a DNP project
… causes of pressure injuries, help standardize nursing interventions and documentation, and decrease the occurrence of pressure injuries. Setting and Stakeholders: This 12-week project was implemented on a 28-bed telemetry unit at a 297-bed suburban hospital. Stakeholders involved included 56 …
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Acute-To-Home Care Nursing Handoffs: Distributed Cognition Across Patterns of Knowledge
… questions aimed at understanding dimensions of nursing roles, patterns of communication, data exchanged and communication channels related to acute-to-home care handoffs.</p><p>This study uses an integrated theoretical framework encompassing cognition theory, patterns of knowledge theory, and …
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Effects of Electronic Health Record Use on the Ambulatory Surgical Services Nurse's Time
<p><strong>ABSTRACT</strong></p> <p><strong>Purpose:</strong> The purpose of this study was to determine the length of time the ambulatory surgical services nurse spends on the EHR compared to performing hands-on patient care.</p> <p><strong>Design:</strong> The research design used in this study …