Whose Chart Is It, Anyway? "The purpose of an EHR should be helping the end users (us) to be more efficient in charting and free up time for direct patient care," observed a Medscape reader. However, ...

In two recently published manuscripts, hundreds of nurses reported delays in care, suboptimal care, nursing moral distress, falsifying of nursing documentation, and loss of autonomy to use nursing ...

Maintaining high quality clinical documentation is essential for a number of reasons, including improved patient safety and better adherence to accreditation standards. Marie Boyd, administrator at ...

The CMS is pumping the brakes on enforcing an Obama-era regulation that sought to improve quality of care and safety at nursing homes. Industry stakeholders welcome the move and said they need more ...