The Importance of Nursing Efficiency for Improved Quality of Patient Care

Meaningful Use core objectives comprise basic functions that enable EHRs to support improved health care. These include the tasks essential to creating any medical record, including the entry of basic data: patients’ vital signs and demographics, active medications and allergies, and up-to-date problem lists of current and active diagnoses. Nurses spend a significant portion of their time charting vital signs, completing forms and documenting care.