The eTAR is utilized specifically to enhance nurse service by employing paperless electronic care strategies. It is documented to be used both for acute and post-acute patient care. Initially, it prepares a list of residents utilizing treatment sessions based on their geographical location, pass time, and route of administration. It then creates e-charts of patients accordingly. This e-charting contains all kinds of patient information. It also has the treatments patients have received. In case the patient has no history of medication, PRN (pro re nata) is selected as an option while documenting (Li et al.,2021) There are separate checkboxes for each treatment or medication administered. There are checkboxes to determine the efficiency of patient-specific effects. For each treatment order fulfilled, a checkbox is filled. This also issues a reminder for the times the vitals require to be checked and administered. If the medication issued for a patient is not sufficient, then a reorder button is requested to convey the order. This same routine is followed for each patient involved. At the end of the respective session, a summary page can be requested to be issued with statistics which include start, end, elapsed time, PRN orders, totals of residents, delivered medications and treatments, and if any instruction is not followed (Ludwikowska, 2018).
The healthcare system issued through eTAR legitimizes the patient experience and documents it to avoid any discrepancies in the process. It also keeps patients’ healthcare updates safe from any human error. These human errors can range from registering patient credentials, their health condition, and updates. It also includes the medication route followed by care providers, any surgical, and non-surgical procedures, and expected and implied outcomes. It also makes it easy for healthcare providers to issue documentation against any medical and surgical order which is not fulfilled. It is for all the orders which are either not fulfilled, late, held, or PRN. These notes ultimately become a part of the resident’s EHR. It makes the care provision easy for nurses and keeps direct interaction with doctors (Quinn et al., 2019)
The eTAR contributes extensively to the strategic planning of effective patient care issues. The primary purpose of strategic planning is to ensure patient safety. eTAR communicates the registered data in its gadgets to maintain automation and effectiveness (Robertson et al., 2019). The new orders are then prioritized and given a 72-hour deadline to be fulfilled. For it, NetSolutions Clinical decisions software is installed. It is an effective tool that provides patients verification that their data is stored in a valid platform. The patients have also confirmed the authority of their respective data and ensured that their data will not be shared with anyone without their authorization. They can also easily access the rights to every treatment they ever went through. Clinical Decision Support (CDS) helps improve the care quality provided to care providers with validated data they could utilize to make their care provision more effective.
Although eTAR is a digitized collection of data which itself makes the care provision effective it has other features making the process convenient. In it, quick links are offered for navigation to the eCharting session. It overshadows the recaps offered every month to keep current orders upfront. It multiplies security by offering two-step verification to access patient data. It offers an easier interface to access and utilize patient data effectively. It puts relevant information like drug information, clinical teaching, and Black Box warnings at the time of installation of software. It puts a flag on the medication treatment to maintain an effective review of the patient’s vitals. It issues alerts for the times vitals need to be reviewed. It ensures that the latest requirements or PRN are displayed for the first 72 hours so that they could be prioritized. Incorporates barcoding to safely keep relevant patient data (Tapuria et al., 2021). All these things are specifically incorporated to improve efficiency as they try to make the process automated and easy to be accessed for the patients. It also makes the multidisciplinary task description of nurses easy by issuing alerts for patient updates, vital checks, medication maintenance, and surgical and non-surgical process maintenance. It keeps every activity of nurses