The development and implementation of new information management systems have become a unique, definitive features of the modern health care system because a new health information system have profound impacts on the entire health care continuum. The passage of Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act of 2009; makes it imperative for health care organizations to adopt the Electronic Health Records (EHRs) (Hoover, 2016; McGonigle & Mastrian, 2015). The healthcare nurses are the frontline caregivers’ are key stakeholder within the health care industry, the adoption of a new technology system is costly, challenging and indeed meet resistance amongst the workforce if not correctly …show more content…
Also, the physicians write their own individual requisitions, and it enhances patients’ safety with electronic medication administration (eMAR) and applicable patients’ data can undoubtedly be evoked with each admission encounter. When frontline caregivers are bestowed training and instruction related to the EHRs implementation, knowledge-based and acceptance are promising because nurses are change agents and have the potential to facilitate the adoption of new technologies when they see such change in a positive light (Finkelman & Kenner, 2013). The Patient Safety Goals and Core Measures established by the Joint Commission dictates the suitability, and efficacy related to care for specific disorders, thus, utilizing EHRs, tracing conformity will protect the healthcare organizations millions of dollars …show more content…
In addition, nurses’ as change agent needs to be in command and the leader, and certainly not permit outsiders to impose how innovative system modeled the nursing profession. I thrust that with the aforementioned planning processes will impact an irrefutable changes, avert resistance and frustrations, and acceptance of end users to the innovative EHRs implementation. The delivery of quality patients’ care and improvement is the essence of the frontline nurses’ practice and code of ethics, the electronic age is here to stay, henceforth, attaining the necessary skills to perform the task implemented by innovation to provide a safe and quality patients’ atmosphere is an added benefit to nursing globally (Furst et