Electronic Donor Referral: Optimizing the Electronic Medical Record to Improve Referral Timeliness

Activity Summary

Required reading for all learners: Implicit Bias impacts patient outcomes

Optimizing the electronic medical record's (EMR) best practice alerts can assist nurses in early identification of potential organ and tissue donors. In addition to improved electronic alerts, the implementation a processing engine to integrate the separate EMRs of the donor hospital and the organ procurement organization allows for an electronic referral process. The impact of an electronic referral process is to reduce nursing work burden and improve timeliness to referral.

Objectives

Explain how optimizing the electronic medical record can help nurses identify clinical triggers for organ and tissue donation referral.
Describe the steps to integrate a processing engine to facilitate electronic referral.
Illustrate the impact of an electronic referral process to nursing workflow and impact to referral timeliness.

Continuing Education Disclosure Statement

Criteria for Awarding Contact Hours

Learners must complete the entire activity and the associated evaluation AND read Implicit Bias impacts patient outcomes. No partial credit will be awarded.

Accreditation

American Association of Critical-Care Nurses is accredited as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation.
Provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider number CEP 1036, for {contactHours} contact hours.

Disclosures

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