Title: 6 strategies for streamlining nursing workflow | Wolters Kluwer
Headings: 6 strategies for streamlining nursing workflow
6 strategies for streamlining nursing workflow
How can you save time and money by helping nurses work more efficiently?
New technologies streamline workflow at the point-of-care
Coordinating care
Improving teamwork among the care team
Making care more cost-efficient
Ensuring patient safety
Patient-centered care

Content: When communication is smooth, working together as a team comes easily. Making care more cost-efficient
According to www.healthit.gov, based on the size of the health system and the scope of their EHR implementation, benefits for large hospitals can range from $37 to $59 million over a five-year period in addition to incentive payments. Savings are primarily attributed to automating time consuming paper-driven and labor-intensive tasks. Using EHR results in reduced transcription costs; reduced chart pull, storage, and re-filing costs; improved and more accurate reimbursement coding with improved documentation for highly compensated codes; and reduced medical errors through better access to patient data and error prevention alerts. Ensuring patient safety
Another unique aspect of technology at the bedside allows nurse managers to provide their nursing staff with standardized procedures and track their staff’s proficiency in skills and procedures with skill competency checklists. This ensures that procedures are being performed the right way. Patient-centered care
Patient-centered care is defined as “care that is respectful of and responsive to individual patient preferences, needs and values, and ensuring that patient's values guide all clinical decisions.”