Whose Chart Is It, Anyway? "The purpose of an EHR should be helping the end users (us) to be more efficient in charting and free up time for direct patient care," observed a Medscape reader. However, ...

Credit: Getty Images. Providing nursing students with the opportunity to audit nursing charts in a real-world scenario may change their perspective about the charting process. The entire student audit ...

Keeping accurate documentation and nursing charts of your patients' information is sound business practice for your health care facility, doctor's office or clinic. All health care personnel should be ...

Maintaining high quality clinical documentation is essential for a number of reasons, including improved patient safety and better adherence to accreditation standards. Marie Boyd, administrator at ...

Nursing documentation is a cornerstone of contemporary healthcare, integrating systematic recording of patient observations, interventions, and outcomes with the aim of enhancing effective care ...

WALTHAM, MA--(Marketwired - May 23, 2013) - Responding to the call from emergency department (ED) providers for improved nursing documentation, Forerun, Inc. (www.forerunsystems.com), today introduced ...

Across healthcare, efforts to advance documentation are often focused on enhancing physicians’ workflow. But at Baltimore-based Johns Hopkins Hospital, leaders are equally focused on improving ...

For many nursing homes denied payment by Medicare contractors, the rationale given comes down to insufficient or missing documentation.

Imagine that you want to progress in your profession, but you’re unable to do so because of hard work, obligations to your family, or maybe the distance to the closest institution is too great. Many ...

Hand-in-hand with real-time charting is point-of-care documentation, representing another change in nurses' workflow ushered in by EHRs. The idea is that computer workstations would be located in ...