n 2009, the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health
(HITECH) Act was passed to support the use of the electronic health record (EHR) in a meaningful and interoperable way (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [CDC], 2017).
As a result, there has been a dramatic shift in the way nurses care for patients at the bedside.
With the introduction of the EHR, bedside nurses have been challenged with a barrage of new technology and workflows. At the same time, nurses are expected to provide high quality, evidenced-based, patient-centered care. This combination of expectations: technology use, adherence to quality, and caring, uniquely positions nurses’ and nurse informaticists’ to greatly impact the adoption and use of technology …show more content…
The theoretical framework used for the study was Jean Watson Theory of Human Caring and the Relationship-Based Care Model. Caring is at the core of nursing competency. Caring occurs at many different junctures during the nursing process, and is necessary in promoting health and wellness for patients. Jean Watson’s philosophy and human caring theory demonstrates that nursing is set apart from other professions by its caring nature. Watson’s Caritas process establishes a trust relationship between the patient and nurse. Transpersonal caring promotes health and wellness by putting the patient at the center of care. Relationship-based care builds on Watson’s theory and serves as a model to transform professional nursing to a caring model
(Alligood, 2014). The research team hypothesized that the implementation of an EHR would streamline nursing workflows, provide nurses with more time with patients, thus improving the patient experience and the delivery of patient-centered care. Their research revealed, that after the EHR implementation, nurses spent less time at the nurses’ station, more time in the patient rooms, reported more purposeful interactions, and an increase
(HITECH) Act was passed to support the use of the electronic health record (EHR) in a meaningful and interoperable way (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [CDC], 2017).
As a result, there has been a dramatic shift in the way nurses care for patients at the bedside.
With the introduction of the EHR, bedside nurses have been challenged with a barrage of new technology and workflows. At the same time, nurses are expected to provide high quality, evidenced-based, patient-centered care. This combination of expectations: technology use, adherence to quality, and caring, uniquely positions nurses’ and nurse informaticists’ to greatly impact the adoption and use of technology …show more content…
The theoretical framework used for the study was Jean Watson Theory of Human Caring and the Relationship-Based Care Model. Caring is at the core of nursing competency. Caring occurs at many different junctures during the nursing process, and is necessary in promoting health and wellness for patients. Jean Watson’s philosophy and human caring theory demonstrates that nursing is set apart from other professions by its caring nature. Watson’s Caritas process establishes a trust relationship between the patient and nurse. Transpersonal caring promotes health and wellness by putting the patient at the center of care. Relationship-based care builds on Watson’s theory and serves as a model to transform professional nursing to a caring model
(Alligood, 2014). The research team hypothesized that the implementation of an EHR would streamline nursing workflows, provide nurses with more time with patients, thus improving the patient experience and the delivery of patient-centered care. Their research revealed, that after the EHR implementation, nurses spent less time at the nurses’ station, more time in the patient rooms, reported more purposeful interactions, and an increase