Workflow in Nursing Healthcare

Workflow in Nursing Healthcare
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Workflow in Nursing Healthcare
The use of workflows in nursing has become a major trend, in the wake of modern technology. The integration of the concept has been majorly motivated by the need to improve patient outcomes, the quality of health care, reduce operational costs, reduce the wait times, improve the overall effectiveness of organizations, and reduce the cycles and process times for nurses. Future state workflow shows opportunities of improving healthcare efficiency and reducing the cycle times.
Concept of workflow and its application for improving user interface in informatics clinical practice
Workflow is also referred to as process analysis, and it entails identification, prioritization, and ordering of the information and tasks required to achieve the projected results or a business or clinical process. It also involves utilizing new techniques in identifying and addressing environmental factors and information needs during the early stages of system implementation and selection (O'Brien, Weaver, Hook, & Ivory, 2015). The techniques employed help in identifying the process boundaries; establishing the common understanding of its steps, triggers, and results; analyzing the functioning of the current process; understanding how the process can be improved and streamlined; and developing use cases for guiding designing, developing, and supporting new systems for automating the process.
A future state workflow to solve an EHR problem in a clinical setting
The EHR presented below is an ambulatory and cloud-based online EHR that can be used by small- and medium-sized practices and to help in improving practice efficiency and the quality of health care administered to patients. The EHR has been designed to allow the end user to share pre-appointment questionnaires, schedule appointments, record visits by patients, and keep a comprehensive report on the medical condition of a patient (Ryan, Doster, Daily, & Lewis, 2017). This will also help in improving recording and documentation in healthc...