A health care organization is investigating a new computerized documentation system. Which question by nursing management would address a source of work-related distress in nurses related to documentation?
a. "How can we ensure the nurses get adequate training or updates?"
b. "How can we make these computerized units more portable?"
c. "How much more accurate and complete will this charting be?"
d. "How will this system save my nurses time when documenting?"
D
In a recent study, nurses reported feeling as though they spend too much time on documentation and not enough on direct patient care. This can contribute to role discrepancy.
Ensuring adequate training and updates would be more a concern of management than of individual nurses on the floor.
Portability does not get at the source of distress related to documentation, which is the fact that nurses feel they spend too much time documenting, taking time away from patient care.
Ensuring more accurate and complete charting would be a concern more likely to arise from the management group than from individual nurses.
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