Iris Publishers- Open access journal of Nursing & Care| Improving Nursing Documentation via Reducing the Written Work Load

Authored by Anaiz Ahmed

With the growth in the health care industry around the world and introduction to new technologies in the system, the uses of traditional methods in nursing practices are reducing. These modern work practices are meant to reduce human effort without compromising on the quality. Dealing with documentation whereas always has been a major challenge in providing the better health care. The project thus outlines the improving nursing documentation via reducing the written work load to increase work efficiency. In this modernized world, the healthcare has become increasingly demanding. The complex environment of the healthcare system and high customer demands creates challenging task for the healthcare professionals. In this situation hospitals endeavor to contemplate on patient care and increased patient altitude of satisfaction. One of the major vicinities of patient care is “nursing care” where nurses’ available 24 hours to full fill patient requirements. With this belief, nursing profession has gain more responsibility as they are the frontline of healthcare delivery. They are linked with direct delivering of patient centered care and high level of outcomes and patient satisfaction. However, unfortunalty due to multiple reasons including work load in which nursing documentation is one of the factor which lead to nursing turnover rate and effect patient care.The availability of nursing staff is associated with positive patient outcomes in clinical settings [1]. In the same context to improve the quality of patient care, Major hospital administrators are fascinated in increasing the amount of time nurses have available for direct patient care by reducing the amount of time nurses spend in written documentation. As nursing documentation is important aspect but Instead, proficiency improvements are required, that documentation of corresponding quality and precision can be inputted in less time as a result more time to be spent on direct patient care.

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