Becker's Healthcare June 5, 2024
Artificial intelligence is “perfectly positioned” to ease the workload for nurses and give them time back at the bedside, a chief nursing officer told Becker’s.
Betty Jo Rocchio, DNP, CRNA, senior vice president and chief nurse executive of St. Louis-based Mercy, said the 30-hospital system has been using AI to help nurses pick up extra shifts and reduce time in the EHR.
With a nursing shortage expected to continue for at least another decade, “we’re going to have to design care delivery differently,” she said. Nurses wanting to leave the profession often cite being sick of all the administrative work unrelated to patient care.
AI has the ability to transform “workforce, workflows and work environment,” Dr. Rocchio said.
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