It is also essential in day-to-day care to ensure proper diagnoses and treatment of patients. It can do so by allowing providers to access a patient's complete medical record from any hospital, clinic, lab, etc. #N703#HIE
HIE/Interoperability plays a role in enabling care coordination and better treatment during this pandemic. The healthcare system can work efficiently in handling the large amounts of +Covid patients if providers are able to exchange info and access patient data quickly #N703#HIE
@Nicole_SFSU This is so true and extremely dangerous! I have seen this too many times. Nurses have to be extra careful and safe when this happens in order to reduce the chance of them making a med error.
Healthcare providers have the opportunity to identify and report any flaws in the health IT systems and the system developers can then use this information to ensure the technology is safe by making improvements. Policymakers can then implement and allocate adequate resources
While EHRs and other technologies can help nurses minimize errors, nurses need to still maximize their face-to-face interactions with patients to demonstrate empathy and care. The physical connection a nurse makes with a patient can never be replaced by technology #N703#HIGHTECH
@NursingTheoryCo As an rn student, I find that I best understand concepts and theories when they are presented with an example of a real-life experience. This helps for me to conceptualize the theory and then recall or recognize an experience in clinical practice that relates to that theory #N703
@Kelsey_SFSU From my experience, phone interpreter conversations are not transcribed. They are only documented that they occurred. Even though licensed interpreters are held legally responsible to accurately report, I agree the conversations should be transcribed fully to avoid misconceptions
This makes it challenging for nurses and healthcare personnel to gather a new patient's complete, full and accurate medical history. Hopefully with emerging medical technology, a software can be developed for communication between different EHR systems #N703#W1
EHRs are a great way to consolidate a patient's complete medical record, however communication is nonexistent between the many different EHR platforms that different hospitals/institutions use #N703#W1