A Community Hospital’s Approach to Alleviate Documentation Burden

The nursing shared governance clinical informatics and technology council identified that nursing admission documentation was particularly cumbersome and time consuming. The group established four guiding principles used to judge if the assessment field added value. The review resulted in a six percent reduction in the number of fields. Future activities will apply the guiding principles to other documentation sections alleviating additional documentation burden.  

Contact hours available until 6/30/2022.

Requirements for Successful Completion:
Complete the learning activity in its entirety and complete the online CNE evaluation.

Faculty, Planners and Authors Conflict of Interest Disclosure: 
The author(s), editor, content reviewers, and director of education reported no actual or potential conflict of interest in relation to this continuing nursing education article.  

Commercial Support and Sponsorship:
No commercial support or sponsorship declared.  

Accreditation Statement:
This educational activity is jointly provided by Anthony J. Jannetti, Inc. and the American Nursing Informatics Association (ANIA).  

Anthony J. Jannetti, Inc. is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation. 

Anthony J. Jannetti, Inc. is a provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, provider number CEP5387.  

This article was reviewed and formatted for contact hour credit by Michele A. Boyd, MSN, RN, NPD-BC , Education Director, Anthony J. Jannetti, Inc.

Learning Outcome:
After completing this continuing nursing education activity, the learner will be able to describe the importance of having an overall organizational strategy for managing EHR data field requests to support data sharing among clinicians and applications (interoperability).