Title: Using data in nursing practice - American Nurse
Headings: Using data in nursing practice
Using data in nursing practice
Data and care quality go hand in hand.
What’s the connection between data and quality and safety?
Informatics
Informatics requirements
How do we leverage the electronic health record?
What is meaningful use?
How do nursing practice and data inform each other?
What’s the future of data and technology?
What can you do?
Selected references

Content: 1 Capture and share data with patients and other providers, as permitted by the patient. 2 Advance clinical processes. 3 Improve outcomes. Ultimately, meaningful use compliance results in improved clinical and population health outcomes, increased transparency and efficiency, empowered individuals, and robust research data on health systems. How do nursing practice and data inform each other? Nurses, who do most of the EHR documentation (including plans of care, physiological parameters, assessments, interventions, and progress evaluations) in hospitals, are critical to care integration and patient safety. Whether entered into flow sheets or as “smart phrases” or narratives, all data are important to the healthcare team’s understanding of the individual patient. Because nurses regularly review individual patient data, they’re the essential communicators to providers about any overt or subtle changes in a patient’s condition. EHRs also help nurses understand how to care for populations of patients. To do that, information about individual patients must be extracted and compiled into flow sheet rows.