CNIO & Deputy Director of Nursing
As we have moved from paper to electronic documentation, so our audits and quality improvement cycles have also changed. No longer are we auditing a small selection of patients and making assumptions about the quality of care, we are now able to audit large volumes of patients’ data across multiple hospital sites to identify trends and opportunities from improvement. Read More
Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust has instigated a process of electronic harm free care audits using metrics and data all sourced automatically from the EPR. we have devised 3 pillars to digital nursing documentation, and the audit processes that support them. The linking together of data in the electronic record means better quality improvement has occurred, which is also more sustained. As we do this new skills sets have become apparent for nursing. No longer are we just bystanders in the electronic record space, but often part of the team configuring the applications and writing the audit scripts. Being able to translate the clinical ask into the digital speak is a key part of the digital nurse work, and as applications become more developed the need for a greater understanding of the digital side will be higher.
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