Equipped for efficiency: improving nursing care through technology
- Collection:
- Health Policy and Services Research
- Contributor(s):
- Turisco, Fran. Rhoads, Jared. California HealthCare Foundation.
- Publication:
- Oakland, Calif. : California HealthCare Foundation, c2008
- Language(s):
- English
- Format:
- Text
- Subject(s):
- Efficiency, Organizational Job Satisfaction Medical Informatics Applications Nursing Care -- methods Nursing Informatics -- organization & administration Automatic Data Processing Diffusion of Innovation Forecasting Geographic Information Systems Medical Order Entry Systems Medical Records Systems, Computerized Medication Systems, Hospital -- organization & administration Patient Identification Systems Robotics -- economics Telecommunications -- trends Work Simplification Humans California
- Genre(s):
- Technical Report
- Abstract:
- New technologies have the potential to create a better work environment for inpatient nurses by improving the efficiency, safety, and quality of care. Advances include wireless communications, real-time location systems, delivery robots, workflow management systems, wireless patient monitoring, electronic medication administration with bar coding, electronic clinical documentation, and interactive patient systems. When linked with these technologies, alarm/event messaging and biomedical device integration add significant value to the way nurses coordinate and provide care. Because nurses work at the center of a complex web of care delivery, their use of proven technological solutions can have a dramatic impact on hospital operations. This report, based on interviews with nurses and other professionals, describes the challenges that nurses face in everyday practice and how innovative hospitals around the country are applying eight leading-edge applications to overcome them. The results indicate that these systems have helped to create a better work environment for inpatient nurses and raise their job satisfaction, while also contributing to improvements in care. All of the hospitals that shared their experience are planning further enhancements or more widespread use of the technologies they have implemented to date.
- Copyright:
- Reproduced with permission of the copyright holder. Further use of the material is subject to CC BY license. (More information)
- Illustrations:
- Illustrations
- NLM Unique ID:
- 101514342 (See catalog record)
- Permanent Link:
- http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/101514342