Point Of Care Solutions: Alienation In The Patient's Room

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Points of care solutions are medical diagnostic testing or documentation done at the patient 's bedside. At my work we us point of care documentation, meaning that the nurses do their documentation in the patient 's room. Research shows that point of care solutions “reduces inefficiencies, decreases the probability of errors, promotes information transfer, and encourages the nurse to be at the bedside” (Duffy&Kharasch, 2010). However, point of care services has been reported by patients to make them feel alienated for their care providers because the nurse 's attention is on their charting and not the patient (Duffy&Kharasch, 2010). This has the potential to “compromise the nurse-patient interaction” (Duffy&Kharasch, 2010). With changes in