Workarounds are alternative methods through which providers bypass standard healthcare procedures and rules in order to achieve a goal(Seaman &Erlen, 2015). An example of a workaround is when doctors use pen and paper to write their orders and have the nurses enter them into the Computerized Patient Record System and […]

Workarounds occur when healthcare providers use alternative approaches to bypass standard operating healthcare procedures in a bid to accomplish a goal (Seaman & Erlen, 2015). For example, instead of collecting and entering patient data into the Computerized Patient Record System themselves, doctors have been known to use pen and paper […]

Nursing informatics is a specialty that aims at integrating nursing science with a range of information management and analysis aspects with the objective of defining, identifying, managing, and communicating information, knowledge, and data in the nursing practice (American Nurses Association, 2020). Among the ways that nursing informatics could be applied […]