Healthcare IT News August 29, 2022
The new Arch Collaborative Nursing Guidebook 2022 contains data on best practices for engaging nurses on EHR mastery.
Electronic health record user mastery by nurses has seen a sharp decline since the beginning of the pandemic, according to researchers.
WHY IT MATTERS
Nearly 16,000 nurses across 35 healthcare organizations responded to a survey about their EHR experience. The results showed a significant drop with just 59% of nurses surveyed in 2022 finding ongoing training helpful compared to 71% of those surveyed in 2020.
The urgency to build user mastery is clear, said KLAS researchers.
Nurses in radiology, pediatric and newborn intensive care units and procedural and behavioral health environments reported struggling with the EHR “and tend to disagree...