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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Nearly 8 in 10 acute care nurses say they lose time each week to unproductive charting, and those facing the heaviest documentation burdens are significantly more likely to experience burnout and ...

As a nursing student balancing Joyce University coursework, clinical rotations, and job hunting, every minute spent on documentation is a minute stolen from patient care or rest. The 2026 updates to ...

Sentara Health nursing teams were facing significant challenges related to recruitment and retention. As the health system began exploring technologies to help solve the problems, things became clear ...

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 ...

The root causes of nursing burnout are varied – as are potential solutions for it. However, given that nurses are frequently responsible for clinical documentation, it's perhaps not surprising that ...

This activity was supported by a contract between the National Academy of Sciences and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (Grant Number 76081). Any opinions, findings, conclusions, or recommendations ...

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 ...

In 2019, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine launched its second major consensus study (and third study in 15 years) of the future of the nursing profession in the United ...