STREAMLINING AND TRANSFORMING DOCUMENTATION:

the vendor view

Denise Rasmussen

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ThenWhat’s to Come…

NOW

AGENDA:

noun BURDEN

bur-den bər-dᵊn

2. A duty or misfortune that causes hardship, anxiety, or grief

3. The main responsibility for achieving a specific aim or task

1. A load, especially a heavy one

Time spent documenting

Number of times logging in/outDuplicative documentation

“Nobody looks at the data I enter” = Perceived low value

“We only document our Care Plan for TJC”

DOCUMENTATION BURDEN

CHARTING BY EXCEPTION1990

Study Protocol B: 382 Nurses, 1083 10-Hour shifts

Data Collection Method: Nurses self-reported location, activity, and

cognitive category on PDA every 15 minutes.

TIME MOTION STUDY2008

INCREASING DIRECT PATIENT CARE

Pre-EMR42.1%

Post-EMR51.4%

Pre-EMR25%

Post-EMR75%

EFFECTIVE + EFFICIENTNURSING DOCUMENTATION

WHAT ELSE IS POSSIBLE...• Mark as Reviewed

• Single Sign-On

• Nurses picking what and how often to document on the head to toe

• Coding and mapping to avoid duplication

“Measurement is the first step that leads to control and

eventually to improvement. If you can’t measure something, you

can’t understand it. If you can’t understand it, you can’t control

it. If you can’t control it, you can’t improve it.”

- H. JAMES HARRINGTON

Study Protocol B: 382 Nurses, 1083 10-Hour shifts

Data Collection Method: Nurses self-reported location, activity, and

cognitive category on PDA every 15 minutes.

TIME MOTION STUDY2008

Small sample Click Estimates

Study Protocol B: 382 Nurses, 1083 10-Hour shifts

Data Collection Method: Nurses self-reported location, activity, and

cognitive category on PDA every 15 minutes.

TIME MOTION STUDY2008

Small sample Click Estimates

NEAT

All Users Measures Time

WHICH FLOWSHEET TEMPLATES SHOULD I FOCUS ON IMPROVING FIRST?

WHICH FLOWSHEET TEMPLATES SHOULD I FOCUS ON IMPROVING FIRST?

WHICH FLOWSHEET TEMPLATES SHOULD I FOCUS ON IMPROVING FIRST?

TIME IN CONTENT

Activity

Navigator

Flowsheet Template

Care Plan

Activity

Navigator

Flowsheet Template

Care Plan

TIME IN CONTENT

Outliers from ‘like’ cohort

WHERE SHOULD WE FOCUS OURTRAINING PROGRAMS?

PEER STORY

Data used: January 2017 & December 2017 NEAT Workbooks

Sample: 435 Nurses (They had data in both workbooks and attributed to same department.)

Intervention: Extensive nursing documentation build improvement programs in Q3 of 2017.

SSM estimated

140,000,000 clicks savedand NEAT measured a

17 minute per day reductionin nurse system documentation through extensive build improvement

programs in Q3 of 2017.

WHERE TO GO NEXT…

NURSING HAPPINESS =PATIENT HAPPINESS

QUESTIONS?

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