Research Title :The Impact of Health Electronic System on the Time Efficiency in Nursing Practice. An Integrative Review
Authors : Rami Ibrahim Al Najjar1, Moath Abedrabbu2, Triq Mokhaimer3, Alhasan Almahrouq4, Belal Albalwee5
Abstract :Background: shortage of nurses is a common challenge in nursing and healthcare with a few nurses working in overtime schedules to meet patients’ demands. Therefore, the amount of time spent by nurses is of critical value to the healthcare organization as it is to patients. Improvements in healthcare technology, notably the introduction of nursing informatics, has tried to improve nursing practices with the goal of meeting efficient patient care. Consequently, researchers moved in to examine the significance of the electronic health systems, such as the electronic health records in improving efficiency of nurses’ practices, and several diverse outcomes have been reported. Objective: due to the divergent outcomes, this integrative review was designed to assess whether there were agreeing outcomes regarding the impact of health electronic system on time efficiency in nursing. Methods and results: a total of ten literature articles obtained from PubMed and Google Scholar met the quality assessments and inclusion criteria and were thus included in this review. These articles were published in the last ten years in English and used primary data. All the articles used quantitative methodologies. The analysis of the individual study findings resulted in the construction of two thematic outcomes: the changes in the documentation time and improvement in nurses’ work proficiency and clinical efficiency. Therefore, this review identified that electronic health systems had a significant effect in altering the documentation time in a nonspecific way. Also, the effect on nursing proficiency and clinical efficiency was definite. Recommendation: there is a need to examine organizational factors that could affect time efficiency among of the electronic health systems
Keywords :the Time Efficiency in Nursing, nursing staff, electronic health records
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