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 ...

"We must remember that the EHR is a tool; it should not dictate how we practice," wrote a Medscape reader. Perhaps it should not, but does it? The fact is, EHRs are far more than a method of entering ...

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 ...

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 ...

"While there is some skepticism among nurses, I believe that when applied in the right settings, artificial intelligence is far from a threat," says Hadassah Backman, CEO of Guardoc, a clinical data ...

Nurses report increased stress levels, and they have said a major contributor to burnout is unproductive charting – a burden that the KLAS Arch Collaborative says hospitals and health systems are able ...

There is ongoing discussion about physician burnout and stress, but doctors aren't the only ones under pressure. A 2020 nursing survey found that almost two-thirds of nurses (62%) experienced burnout ...

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, ...