Abstract
- Hospitals and health systems need the ability to uniquely identify nurses in the electronic health record (EHR), enterprise resource planning system (ERP), and other health IT systems for documentation, education, research and training purposes.
- Nursing documentation in the EHR, ERP and other health IT systems will increasingly be used to demonstrate nurses’ value as healthcare transitions to a value-based reimbursement model.
- Nursing documentation can demonstrate nurses’ value and impact on improving patient/population outcomes, patient safety, operational efficiency and clinical effectiveness.
- Nurses and employers need a mechanism to track nursing licensure across job and location changes throughout a nurse’s career.
- Institutions need the ability to verify licensure status for their nurse employees
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Keyword(s)
Nurse Identifier
Policy and Advocacy
Health IT Policy