Butler Memorial Hospital has won the nationally recognized Nursing Information Technology Innovation Award sponsored by Health Data Management and CARING. Vocollect Inc. engaged Bright Innovation to help create an award winning new way for nurses to work at Butler Memorial Hospital.
Registered nurses are one of the most essential, yet costly, expenses for a hospital. The Bright team conducted several months of field research and group interviews to help Vocollect develop and create a wireless hands-free and eyes-free system for IV nurses. This new system will reduce infections, decrease paperwork, ease communication, increase the time nurses spend treating patients and improve workflow among the nursing staff.
Vocollect hired Bright Innovation to determine if their products and capabilities could improve the lives of IV team nurses and their patients. Bright Innovation shadowed nurses while they did their jobs, created simulations and conducted interviews in order to get a solid understanding of how the IV team members did their job and their most important needs. Using these interactive and observational tools, Bright Innovation found ways to improve data management, communication, and task management.
The system will save time, paperwork and effort for IV nurses. Minimizing administrative duties leaves more time to devote to patient care. The system reduces errors by giving nurses the ability to completely document their tasks, eliminating time and stress spent recording notes manually. According to Health Data Management Magazine:
By using the new technology, IV nurses completely documented their tasks in the clinical information system 100% of the time, compared with 40% using the old, more manual process, says Cindy Esser, R.N., director of emerging technologies. This more complete data will help the hospital’s efforts to conduct research on the cause of IV complications, including infections.
About the Award:
This is the fourth year that Health Data Management has sponsored the Nursing Information Technology Innovation Award competition. The co-sponsor is CARING, a national nursing informatics association.
The award recognizes a team of nursing professionals at a hospital, clinic or other care giving site. It recognizes innovation and excellence in using information technology to directly improve the quality of care or promote the effective use of nursing resources.
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