This project planning is designed in preparation to implement an automated vital sign documentation system at Silver Hill Hospital located in New Canaan, Connecticut. This hospital’s inpatient units currently do not utilize an automated vital sign documentation system and would truly benefit from this change of workflow. The collection of vital sign helps determine the state of an individual’s help and helps healthcare staff identify if a patient is deteriorating. In past studies automated vital sign documentation systems have decreased documentation errors by 75% and the software utilized was able to transfer vital sign results from the bedside equipment to the patient’s electronic record within seconds with 100”% accuracy (Meccariello & Johnstone,
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Short and Long Range Objectives
The short-range objective for implementing an automated vital sign documentation system is to improve the nursing efficiency and accuracy of taking patient vitals for health staff in hospital settings. The long-range objective is to provide health professions with a workflow process that will reduce errors in the collection of vital signs therefore, improving overall patient outcomes.
II. Purpose
The overall purpose of this project is reducing the number of errors that take place in vital sign collection and improve patient outcomes by speeding up the process of retrieving pertinent health information. Providing health professional staff with vital sign equipment that automatically send results to the electronic health record will not only save the staff time in documenting the result but also will prevent documentation errors that occur when staff manually transcribes vital sign data into electronic records. The expected outcome is that the reduction in collection time will result in cost savings and improved patient outcomes. In particular, patients will be provided more immediate care and interventions related to abnormal vital signs because the healthcare team will have the information more …show more content…
The reasoning for this choice is because it would prevent the hassle of staff members having to carry around additional equipment around while obtaining vital signs and also protect heath information. Ipads are commonly used portable devices in inpatient hospital settings as health informatics evolves. Compared to computers they are smaller in size, which makes them easily to be stolen and hidden. Staff members could easily misplace them while doing a patient’s vital signs putting health information at risk for being accessed by unauthorized users. McGonigle and Mastrian (2015) share that between December 22, 2009 and July 28th, 2016, about 146 data breaches affected more than 500 people and the type of breaches included theft and loss of electronic data. With the use of automated vital sign documentation, the information will be sent directly to the electronic record and the patient’s information will not be stored in the equipment preventing access to their information. Aside from preventing security breached, the automated vital sign documentation system eliminated staff from having to manually input vitals into a device (computer or portable device) which saves the staff member valuable
Short and Long Range Objectives
The short-range objective for implementing an automated vital sign documentation system is to improve the nursing efficiency and accuracy of taking patient vitals for health staff in hospital settings. The long-range objective is to provide health professions with a workflow process that will reduce errors in the collection of vital signs therefore, improving overall patient outcomes.
II. Purpose
The overall purpose of this project is reducing the number of errors that take place in vital sign collection and improve patient outcomes by speeding up the process of retrieving pertinent health information. Providing health professional staff with vital sign equipment that automatically send results to the electronic health record will not only save the staff time in documenting the result but also will prevent documentation errors that occur when staff manually transcribes vital sign data into electronic records. The expected outcome is that the reduction in collection time will result in cost savings and improved patient outcomes. In particular, patients will be provided more immediate care and interventions related to abnormal vital signs because the healthcare team will have the information more …show more content…
The reasoning for this choice is because it would prevent the hassle of staff members having to carry around additional equipment around while obtaining vital signs and also protect heath information. Ipads are commonly used portable devices in inpatient hospital settings as health informatics evolves. Compared to computers they are smaller in size, which makes them easily to be stolen and hidden. Staff members could easily misplace them while doing a patient’s vital signs putting health information at risk for being accessed by unauthorized users. McGonigle and Mastrian (2015) share that between December 22, 2009 and July 28th, 2016, about 146 data breaches affected more than 500 people and the type of breaches included theft and loss of electronic data. With the use of automated vital sign documentation, the information will be sent directly to the electronic record and the patient’s information will not be stored in the equipment preventing access to their information. Aside from preventing security breached, the automated vital sign documentation system eliminated staff from having to manually input vitals into a device (computer or portable device) which saves the staff member valuable