Intensive Care, Registered Nurse Documentation Burden in a Limited Resource, Post-Pandemic Era
Hospital A has experienced intensive care unit (ICU), Registered Nurse (RN), and tangible resource imbalances from the COVID-19 pandemic. This has perpetuated the organization’s financial and logistical difficulties in sustaining reliable, quality service delivery. The ICU RNs have identified documentation policy and practice as a persistent burden to meeting stakeholders’ modern needs. Research has identified that electronic health record documentation may be associated with unnecessary burdens that negatively impact RN workflows, direct patient care time, and operational efficiencies. The investigator aims to better understand and illustrate the department’s most impactful post-pandemic documentation-related burdens to determine associations, conclusions, and recommendations regarding existing RN documentation policy.
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