Creating Patient Care Efficiency through Nursing Informatics: Implementation of a Real-time Patient Procedure Documentation

Efficient patient care is dependent on accurate and timely documentation. In many healthcare organizations, there are many complaints about delays in processing patients’ procedures and tests. Additionally, some of them have to get the procedure themselves from different medical practitioners. This not only causes delays but reduces patients’ satisfaction due to the back-and-forth exchange and the time taken to get the results.

The proposal advocates for the implementation of real-time patient procedure documentation in the hospital. This nursing informatics project will ensure that the patient’s experience is improved by streamlining the workflow, and presenting the documents as they are presented by using patient management software (Bunting & de Klerk, 2022).

The main objective of the project is to improve patient care efficiency and satisfaction by implementing a real-time procedure documentation system. The software intends to ensure that all medical practitioners who are taking care of the patient such as doctors, lab technicians, and nurses have the information they need immediately after it is available (Kasaye et al., 2022). As a result, there will be reduced paperwork, reduced time taken to get results from one place to another, and overall increased patient satisfaction. 

Stakeholders Impacted By the Project

Patients

The patients will be among the stakeholders who will be most affected by the project. They will have their information passed from one profession to another but

this will be necessary to ensure that they can get results in real-time (Vos et al., 2020). As a result, their movements across the hospitals will be limited as they do not have to move from one practitioner to another to get the necessary information such as test results (Bunting & de Klerk, 2022). Additionally, they will be served faster and more efficiently as their tests will be immediately available to the authorized practitioner hence reducing the waiting period.