NURS 6051 THE INCLUSION OF NURSES IN THE SYSTEMS DEVELOPMENT LIFE CYCLE

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NURS 6051 THE INCLUSION OF NURSES IN THE SYSTEMS DEVELOPMENT LIFE CYCLE

I appreciate your detailed post regarding the involvement of nurses during the system development life cycle of the EHR. I agree with your sentiment regarding how much providers and nurses rely on the EHR to make life at work more feasible. But when there are issues with interoperability and disturbances in the workflow, it can be costly and time-consuming. (McGonigle & Mastrian, 2018) describes the importance of building a design team that includes individuals that “are able to contribute information about the exact current-state workflow and offer suggestions for future-state improvement”. You demonstrated this with your contribution at your job when you offered the nurse informaticist feedback on the issues that were related to your specific work-related charting in the CVICU.

Gathering valuable feedback from the nurses is crucial for the implementation of an EHR to work with the flow, not against it. Organizations can benefit from creating a culture that is proactive in embracing change and innovation that is brought forward by the nurses and other staff that interact with the technology. In an article by (Kelley, 2019), it references how nurse leaders should work together with other administrators to encourage nurses “who have ideas…will want to know how to bring those forward for consideration”. Including nurses in the early stages of the SDLC in any project can help reduce the number of unnecessary resources used later on, as well as make it an easier adjustment for all.

References

Kelley, T. (2019). Emergence of nursing innovation influenced by advances in informatics and health IT. Nurse Leader, 17(6), 531–536. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mnl.2019.09.012

McGonigle, D., & Mastrian, K. G. (2018). Nursing Informatics and the foundation of knowledge (4th ed.). Jones & Bartlett Learning.

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