Compliance with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ Life Safety Code regulations is continuously a challenge for skilled nursing facilities around the nation. These complex rules and ...

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, ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Hospitals nationwide are looking for innovative ways to decrease drug waste, particularly for controlled substances. An effective solution would ensure patients receive the correct dose, decrease lost ...

It was clear from the comments made by nurses that many different EHR systems are in use today, explaining the high degree of variability in functionality and user-friendliness reported by nurses.