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Nurses are facing increasing levels of burnout, and a one contributor is the complexity of Electronic Health Records (EHRs). We look at how EHR workflow optimization can reduce the pressure on busy circulating nurses.
Read about:
- EHR Challenges for Circulating Nurses
- EHR Add On Technology
- AI Vision EHR Enhancement
A recent report highlighted that nearly a third of nurses experiencing burnout symptoms state that EHR systems are a contributor to their low job satisfaction, with 40% stating their intention to leave their organization within the next two years. But what if there was a way to improve nurse satisfaction while boosting EHR workflow optimization?
The Klas survey of 75,000 nurses found that 33% reported symptoms of burnout, a worrying statistic for healthcare providers who are keen to take steps to improve morale in order to hold on to their staff. With many healthcare facilities still experiencing labor shortages and suffering from high labor costs, many realize the importance of taking action to retain nurses. With such high levels of frustration, and some of it relating to the complexity of using the EHR system, what can be done to address these issues and help to increase nurse satisfaction?
EHR Challenges for Circulating Nurses
Circulating nurses are commonly frustrated by perioperative documentation due to the time and effort it takes to enter every consumed item into the EHR system. In fact, in the survey 17% of nurses who had symptoms of stress, felt that EHR workflow inhibits efficiency and cited EHR documentation as a contributor to their burnout. Our own discussions with 500 perioperative nurses found the following four major EHR challenges:
- Manual documentation
- Documentation time
- Items not in the system
- Difficulty with charge capture
Typical comments included:
“Whether making handwritten notes, or keying in data onto the computer, documenting takes too much time away from patient care.”
“There are time constraints documenting items not covered on the pick ticket during surgical procedures.”
It’s clear that the EHR documentation of supply utilization in operating rooms can be improved.
EHR Workflow Optimization Using Add On Tech
The fact is that many EHR systems do an excellent job in their core function, but many lack sophistication when it comes to specialist functions like supply chain management. That’s why it’s important to consider applications that can enhance EHR efficiency and improve the nurse experience.
Snap&Go is an AI-Vision-powered point of use system that seamlessly integrates with common EHR systems. It optimizes the EHR’s data collection capabilities of OR supplies by delivering verified, validated and corrected data, resulting in complete and accurate medical records. This new technology streamlines EHR workflows and improves patient care by allowing nurses to spend less time documenting products and more time supporting patients.
So what did our circulating nurses think of Snap&Go? Nurse feedback on AI vision was very positive:
“Loved the ease of use. It’s super user friendly and takes the guess work out of putting in supplies or implants.”
“Actually captures every item used in a surgical procedure accurately.”
Leveraging AI technology at the point of care can reduce the EHR administration undertaken by nurses and impact job satisfaction.
AI Vision EHR Enhancement
In 2024 you need an app to reduce nurse admin time and for EHR workflow optimization.
AI Vision technology enhances the supply documentation capabilities of EHR systems and transforms supply documentation by eliminating the need for any EHR data entry and turning item capture into a 3 second task for nurses.
Read about the IDENTIPlatform’s EPIC integration.
One way to tackle low nurse satisfaction with EHR systems is to tap into specialist applications that improve the functionality of EHR software, reduce the pressure on busy nurses, and improve the quality of EHR data.
See Snap&Go in action:
Find out how AI Vision can boost your EHR supply documentation.
