The benefits and challenges of using electronic health recording system from nurses’ perspective
Fan, Qiuyu (2017)
Fan, Qiuyu
Laurea-ammattikorkeakoulu
2017
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https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-2017052610352
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-2017052610352
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As electronic health recording systems (EHRs) have been taken into use in the clinical field, the patients’ data have become interoperable between different health care professionals in different units and in different regions. The EHRs are expected to make a significant impact on health care outcomes and clinical practices. The end users of EHRs include nurses, physicians, secretarial staff, pharmacists, other healthcare professionals, and even patients. End users’ experiences are commonly studied for a better design, implementation, and development of computer systems. However, most of the EHRs related studies have focused only on physicians’ experiences. Few studies directly consider the nurses’ perspective on using EHRs. The purpose of this thesis is to describe the benefits and challenges of using electronic health recording systems from the nurses’ perspective.
A literature review was chosen as the research method. Peer-reviewed articles were collected through three research databases: Laurea FINNA, CINAHL, and ProQuest. Ten articles were then chosen for a thorough review. The results of these articles were analyzed with the inductive content analysis method.
Eight main categories were identified. Three of them describe the benefits of using EHRs: improvements in work efficiency, improvements in the quality of nursing documentation and improvements in patient care. Challenges were categorized into increased workload, record quality and security concerns, patient safety concerns, technology and IT related issues, and insufficient organizational support. The results show that nurses can benefit from EHRs even if there are challenges in the use of these systems.
A literature review was chosen as the research method. Peer-reviewed articles were collected through three research databases: Laurea FINNA, CINAHL, and ProQuest. Ten articles were then chosen for a thorough review. The results of these articles were analyzed with the inductive content analysis method.
Eight main categories were identified. Three of them describe the benefits of using EHRs: improvements in work efficiency, improvements in the quality of nursing documentation and improvements in patient care. Challenges were categorized into increased workload, record quality and security concerns, patient safety concerns, technology and IT related issues, and insufficient organizational support. The results show that nurses can benefit from EHRs even if there are challenges in the use of these systems.