As health care
organizations contend with clinical staff shortages,
nurses are expected to treat an increasing number of
higher acuity patients efficiently, all while
maintaining the highest safety standards. MEDITECH's
advanced clinical system provides leading edge
information technology to streamline nurse workloads
and incorporate the clinical decision support tools
that ensure safety, creating a quality environment
for patients.
Nurses utilizing our
system have the information they need to prioritize
tasks, plan shifts, and improve patient care. A
Nursing Status Board feature within our Patient Care
System application accommodates the expanding
workloads and growing challenges of today's nurses by
providing them with a clear overview of which
patients require care, the interventions that are
needed, and the timeframes associated with those
interventions. The Nursing Status Board displays the
patients for an individual caregiver or a specific
location, and enables nurses to manage all aspects of
their patients' care such as medication
administration and documentation from a single screen.
It serves as the nurses' "home page,"
making the workflow process more efficient and
helping nurses to organize and prioritize their
workloads.
Since releasing our
Nursing Status Board, MEDITECH has received wonderful
feedback from our end-users. We recently heard from
Joyce Walls, associate director of clinical
informatics at Mount Nittany Medical Center (State
College, PA) who had this to say: "The nurses
have had a really positive response to this new
feature, because they realize that it enhances their
ability to manage care for a group of patients, all
from a single location. Nurses can now prioritize
care based on a patient's needs. Furthermore, our
nurses really like being able to decide ‘on the
fly’ whether to go into an intervention and
document via the spreadsheet."
Nurses on the front
line of patient care require decision support tools
that meet their specific needs. Our clinical decision
support tools enable nurses to administer medications
safely and efficiently through point-of-care
technology. MEDITECH incorporates bar code scanning
technology in our on-line Medication Administration
Record, enabling nurses to check the "Five
Rights" (right patient, right drug, right dose,
right route, and right time) upon scanning the
patient's wristband and medication.
MEDITECH recognizes
the urgency within health care to rise above the
nursing shortage and in response, we will continue to
develop advanced clinical tools that allow care
givers to make the most of their valuable time.
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