DNP 805 Topic 2 DQ 2 Analyze your new practice workflow to incorporate seeing patients and in regard to communication with the health care team and the infusion of the EHR into your practice
Topic 2 DQ 2
You are now a DNP-prepared nurse in a new leadership position in clinical practice. Analyze your new practice workflow to incorporate seeing patients and in regard to communication with the health care team and the infusion of the EHR into your practice. What elements do you need to consider if this position is in a magnet acute-care hospital in a busy metropolitan area? How might your practice change if the setting was a rural regional clinic system?
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DNPs are uniquely prepared and qualified for a variety of advanced healthcare roles, including clinical practice. Reduce costs as expert clinicians, school faculty, health care consultants, entrepreneurs, and scholars caring for multiple patient populations in various geographic areas, and as global health leaders by focusing on primary care, health promotion, and disease prevention (Zaccagnini & Pechacek, 2019). As an expert clinician and academic scholar, the DNP qualified nurse can improve patient care by initiating quality improvement (QI) projects and contributing to healthcare policy development. Furthermore, he is well-versed in healthcare economics, finance, leadership, and quality improvement (Zaccagnini, & Pechacek, 2019).
Workflow refers to a recurring sequence of conventional tasks that must be accomplished in order to achieve certain goals, such as clinical processes in nursing. To increase assistance, healthcare providers (HCPs) should be included in the development, planning, and implementation of health information technologies (health IT). When a company implements an electronic health record (EHR), it alters the conventional procedure. As a result, the workflow is changed to accommodate the new system. The workflow redesign is a process that involves looking at all aspects of the organization, mapping out current workflows, analyzing how work is done in the organization, planning for the future, and creating new workflows in order to increase the organization’s efficiency and quality of health care. Most companies benefit from workflow redesign in order to improve their EHR deployment, efficiency, health care quality and safety, remove confusion from their current workflow, and increase care coordination (HealtIT.gov., 2019).
As a DNP leader, I would conduct an assessment to determine what will be involved, such as patients and a new EHR system. I would engage with the senior information technology (IT) analyst team to determine the type of system they intend to adopt, and then schedule a meeting with the nurses who will be using the EHR to notify them of the system and when training will begin. The training would be 1-2 weeks, with a maximum of one month to ensure that every personnel is properly and efficiently taught by IT professionals and clinical specialists to incorporate the EHR into their work flow. During the deployment, patients will be informed about the new EHR system, as well as the availability of IT professionals and clinical specialists to assist staff in troubleshooting any problems found when dealing with patients (Fecher, McCarthy, Porreca, & Yaraghi, 2020).
The term “Magnet” is a gold standard term for nursing practice in hospitals, used to distinguish those who are able to attract and retain qualified nurses based on five goals, including transformational leadership, structural empowerment, new knowledge, innovation, and empirical outcomes and development. Magnet hospitals are effective because they have work environments that prioritize decentralized decision-making, autonomy, control over practice, resource adequacy, supportive management, good inter-professional communication, and career development.
As a DNP leader in a magnet hospital, I will ensure that the staff is well trained to maintain our nursing excellence standards, that the structures required for training are in place during training and during implementation, and that I maintain communication with the staff about when this will occur so that they are well prepared. Adequate infrastructure, such as adequate computers, an IT professional team, and adequate staffing to cover patient care for those in training in order to preserve patient safety and effective nursing care. Providing enough information about the improvements in nursing care quality that this new system would give will increase their desire to learn and apply the program.
As a DNP leader, I would have to rethink my tactics because the pace would be slower in a rural area. I would also need to give them some time to adjust to the need for a new EHR system. They will take longer to train and implement because patient flow may be slow and staffing may be insufficient. As the DNP leader, I will work with all of the leadership teams to inform them of the process change and the importance of their participation with my team, as well as to explain the new changes to the patients. In addition, the leader must ensure that all structural resources are in place.
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References:
Fecher, K., McCarthy, L., Porreca, D. E., & Yaraghi, N. (2020). Assessing the benefits of integrating health information exchange services into the medical practices’ workflow. Information Systems Frontiers, 23(3), 599-605.
HealtIT.gov. (2019). What is workflow redesign? Why is it important? | HealthIT.gov. ONC | Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology.
Mondayblog. (2022, March 31). Workflow definitions & templates for 2022. monday.com Blog.
Rivaz, M., Ebadi, A., & Momennasab, M. (2018). The role of magnet hospitals in making the nursing practice environment attractive. Tehran University of Medical Sciences 4(23), 294-290
Zaccagnini, M., & Pechacek, J. M. (2019). The doctor of nursing practice essentials: A new model for advanced practice nursing. Jones & Bartlett Learning.
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You post has been informative and I really endorse the training and reevaluation of approaches that was used both in the magnet and non magnet hospital.
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Good job. As a leader, what ways can a leader impact communication and the use of the EHR? Dr Gabua
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I admire the knowledge you have concerning your role as a DNP trained nurse. It is indeed great when a nurse acknowledges their scope of practice both in primary care settings and management positions (Zaccagnini, & Pechacek, 2019). It is true that DNP nurses play central roles in developing projects that improve care delivery. However, am glad you identify the challenges that accompany changes in healthcare organizations. Not all healthcare providers will support transformation within a facility. It is therefore the role of the DNP nurse project to convince them that the change is necessary and inevitable. The nurse should adopt a transformational leadership style to ensure the other staff nurses understand the need for the change. I particularly like the example you use to show what you would do to implement an EHR system in a facility. The successful implementation of such a system requires proper planning, constant communication, and a learning culture (Badewi, 2016). As the DNP nurse plans for training sessions, other health care providers must be willing to learn to achieve the project goals.
References
Badewi, A. (2016). The impact of project management (PM) and benefits management (BM) practices on project success: Towards developing a project benefits governance framework. International Journal of Project Management, 34(4), 761-778.
Zaccagnini, M., & Pechacek, J. M. (2019). The doctor of nursing practice essentials: A new model for advanced practice nursing. Jones & Bartlett Learning.
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Leader rounding is critical in leadership. This includes team member as well as patient rounding. During the leader rounding, you can better understand how to improve the quality of the services provided by the customer. This period frequently brings up questions that they have. This is the time to incorporate the Electronic Medical Record (EHR). That is just one of many possibilities. Interdisciplinary rounds are another example. This leads to improved communication and care delivery across the interdisciplinary team. These are essential components of magnet facilities. This is what results in the patient experience, nursing engagement, and improved patient outcomes required for magnet designation. This also contributes to the efficiency of the hectic acute care setting.
The beauty of this is that it does not have to change when moving into the rural setting. The only things that should change with the setting is the resources available. It is possible to rural regional hospital’s to designate as magnet facilities. They are able to do all of the same things to make sure that patient and nurse engagement are high as well as patient outcomes. I work in a community hospital that just designated as a magnet facility as well as a recent recipient of Presidential Malcomb Baldrige Award which is the highest quality achievement award. These were made possible by our lean management system. This has been as transformative to me as a leader. It has taught me how to lead thru engagement of the front line team members and pushing them to be the problem solvers, and supporting them thru it. This can and should be implement in all hospital settings regardless of size or resources. Consistent utilization of a daily lean management system has been proven to improve the quality of care and patient outcomes in the acute hospital setting (Shazia et al., 2020).
References
Shazia Sarwar Alvi, Zahid Hamid, Sidra Riaz, Muhammad Sarwar Alvi, & Naila Azam. (2020). Effect of Lean Daily Management (Ldm) System on Quality of Healthcare Delivery in Indoor Setting – a Pilot Suudy. Pakistan Armed Forces Medical Journal, 70(3), 842–848.
Greetings Alicia! Thank you for your post! My agreements reside with how you asserted that patient experience and outcomes, alongside nursing involvement, prove crucial when concerning the achievement of magnet designation. Evidence serves substantial in establishing that Magnet hospitals possess higher percentages of content nurses, lowered turnover, decreased vacancies improved clinical outcomes for patients, improved nurse autonomy, alongside augmented patient-based satisfaction than non-magnet hospitals (Start & Graystone, 2021). In addition, urban noted that magnet-status hospitals involve nurses as critical players in developing and updating institutional policies to improve practice, patient experience, and outcomes. This practice benefits the hospital and its patients, but it can also lead to more engagement and job satisfaction among nurses (Start & Graystone, 2021). Great post!
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