Evidence-Based Practice: A Project Proposal Nursing burnout has been an issue for healthcare professionals for many years. According to Gesner, et al. (2020), the turnover rate of nurses has increased from 16.8% in 2019 to 18.7% in 2021. Nurses experience several stress factors, which include unsafe patient-to-nurse ratios, work overload, and time pressures. High turnover rates worsen patient outcomes by experienced nurses leaving and hiring newly graduating nurses that may have not been trained well due to the time constraint. With all of this, nurses are required to submit documentation by the end of their shift. Gesner et al. define documentation burden as increased effort and pressure to document all patient records to the electronic health …show more content…
Once in a patient’s room, the patient may need something, and time goes by fast. This causes a nurse to feel pressure and stress because of the time constraint. Also, nurses may be new and have trouble using the EHR. If the EHR isn’t user-friendly, then this can further a nurse’s pressure in the workplace. For nurses to be able to document successfully, the EHR should reflect the phases of the nursing process (Groot, et al., 2022). This can include removing mandatory sections to be completed and having better nursing notes and communication with the interdisciplinary team. The change can start by taking the documentation burden issue to the nurse leaders and inputs are given. This information is then given to the staff that participate in the shared governance process. It’s helpful to share information with several people in a shared governance process, so it can be successful. The committee’s information is given to the committee it corresponds to. i.e. CHCM, 2023. There are different committees that are responsible for distinct aspects such as education, patient safety, quality improvement, and more. During this time, information is being …show more content…
The doctors and advanced practitioners will give vital information about the documentation that is important to enter into the system. This can include the head-to-toe assessments, intake, outputs, wound information, IV assessments, fall risks, and more. They can also include what can make the system more user friendly, which can be an avatar that shows a realistic image of everything the patient has. In addition, linking the content in the EHR, so that relevant information is only entered once (Groot, et al., 2022). Entering the same information more than once can be very time-consuming. Information technology can give insight into how we can simply assess the assessments that everyone routinely enters. This can include organizing all the assessments in one tab, so everything can be seen in one place. This allows the whole picture of the situation to be seen. It keeps everything that needs to be together. Nurses can give information on which assessment takes the longest and what can be improved. This can include doing the fall assessment once and not having to do it again unless the patient’s condition