Marquette College of Nursing in Milwaukee announced this week that it has begun training nursing students in electronic health record documentation using the Epics Lyceum platform, an educational version of its EHR.
WHY IS THIS IMPORTANT
Previously, Marquette nursing students could only use parts of the Epics software as part of their hospital training and did not have access to the full EHR until they passed their licensing exams and became nurses.
“Being able to provide our students with experience working on industry-standard software from a leading health technology company is a game-changer for our college,” said Dr. Jill Guttormson, dean. from the College of Nursing, in last week’s announcement.
According to Guttormson, registered nurses “who are well prepared for practice” need competent and ethical use of medical records.
“Working with Epic allows our students to enter their clinical sites and first nursing jobs equipped to use an EHR to document and understand their patients’ trajectory while remaining focused on providing holistic care.” »
Lyceum comes with training resources, such as sample workflows, to help Marquette faculty integrate Epic into their curriculum, as well as support from Epic, the nursing school said.
“Nurses have to document vital signs, incident reports, progress notes. You have all the documentation from doctors or other health care providers; it can be very complicated,” Alicia Davis said , clinical instructor at the College of Nursing.Marquette today.
The article states that the nursing school is the first in the nation to have students using Lyceum.
Epic also offers a “Lyceum Behind the Scenes” course to familiarize teachers with the platform and resources.
“I could actually create an Epic board and show my students what they will see, what they will end up plotting and documenting in a hospital,” said Davis, whose healthcare quality and safety students Nurses will be among the first in Marquette to have access to the High School, explained.
Within the EHR education platform, faculty can add a medical records component to their courses. Students travel to the Lyceum to correctly complete patient documentation corresponding to the particular patient scenarios presented in their courses.
About 20 percent of nurses leave the profession within the first year after graduation, Davis noted. The goal of the university’s collaboration with Epic is to integrate Lyceum into every level and program of the nursing curriculum and provide early exposure, according to the story.
“We build this into our curriculum in a very deliberate way,” said Anne Costello, director of the college’s Wheaton Franciscan Healthcare Center for Clinical Simulation.
“We work with a vendor that most of our students will see when they graduate.”
In addition to working with Epic’s Lyceum for EHR documentation training, Marquette nursing students will have access to immersive virtual reality training tools and a larger simulation lab opening in 2024.
THE BIGGEST TREND
During the pandemic, nurses’ satisfaction with their EHRs declined.
Based on the results of a 2022 survey of nearly 16,000 nurses across 35 healthcare organizations, KLAS Research’s Arch Collaborative offered data and best practices for engaging nurses in EHR mastery in its Guide of nursing 2022.
“Many would benefit from reassessing how their training and education programs prepare nurses for their daily use of the EHR while resisting inevitable EHRs and associated environmental changes,” KLAS researchers said.
More than a decade ago, when health care providers were encouraged and required to make significant use of electronic patient record technologies, the Alliance for Clinical Education found that most healthcare programs Medical schools then offered little EHR training to future doctors.
Today, the industry is learning that engaging nurses in improving EHR workflows is critical to the overall functioning of the healthcare system.
Denver Health nurses became more efficient when the health system brought together a group of front-line clinicians and nursing informatics specialists into a task force that partnered with its EHR analysts to make changes to ‘Mitigate documentation fatigue and improve performance.
Amy Fielding, RN-BC, RN Informatics Specialist saidHealthcare IT Newsin September, Denver Health reduced the amount of time nurses had to spend on documentation and saw a nearly 10% improvement.
The Epic EHR workflow redesign increased nurse documentation speed by more than 10 minutes and reduced overall time spent in the EHR, while Denver Health reportedly saw a 9.4% increase in documentation time timely.
“It was critical for end users to identify documentation issues within the EHR,” she added.
“This helped participants take ownership of the process and ensured that bedside nurses were heard by IT.”
ON THE FILE
“Our goal in creating Lyceum is to simplify access to the EHR experience for future healthcare professionals,” Seth Howard, Epics senior vice president of research and development, said in a statement.
Andrea Fox is the editor-in-chief of Healthcare IT News.
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