Guide for Nursing Flowsheet Redesign to Optimize Workflow and Decrease Documentation Time

Activity Summary

Required reading for all learners: Implicit Bias impacts patient outcomes

This session describes an innovative flowsheet documentation redesign responsible for a significant improvement in efficiency and time spent in documentation. Shared governance structure and guiding principle processes are shared to translate to your institution. Five quick wins; relocation and reformatting reassessment documentation; and documentation practice changes to align with nursing workflow are presented. The optimization resulted in an 18.5% decrease in documentation time.

Objectives

Describe methods to streamline nursing flowsheet documentation to decrease time in documentation.
Identify key components to navigation enhancement.
Explain the process to implement the components of a flowsheet redesign initiative.

Continuing Education Disclosure Statement

Successful Completion

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

Accreditation

The 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

Any relevant relationship between an ineligible company and an individual with the ability to influence clinical content will be identified by the Nurse Planner within the activity. Any relevant relationship between an ineligible company and an individual with the ability to influence clinical content has been mitigated.

Accreditation refers to recognition of continuing education only and does not imply AACN, ANCC, or CBRN approval or endorsement of any commercial products discussed or displayed in conjunction with this educational activity. Activities with pharmacology hours are to assist the APRN in fulfilling the pharmacotherapeutic education requirements for licensure and certification renewals.

Activities meet the standards for most states that require mandatory continuing education for license and/or certification renewal. AACN recommends consulting with your own state board of nursing or credentialing organization before submitting your certificate of completion.

Refund Policy

Continuing Education Activities are nonrefundable.