CLINICAL DECISION-MAKING TOOLS 2
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CLINICAL DECISION-MAKING TOOLS
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Clinical decision-making tools are tools found in EHR systems and work together to enhance efficiency, care delivery and outcomes. Through the use of these tools, patients’ information and proof based data are well presented to clinicians at a suitable time throughout the care arranging process, making guidance and appropriate decision for effective care. EHR is a technology that computerizes patient records and makes them available throughout the health care facility from receptions, laboratory to pharmacy. In my workplace, the following are some of the clinical decision-making tools use.
Documentation forms and templates
Using documented forms as clinical instruments guarantees that suitable information is gathered and recorded. All around planned formats enable clinicians to enter the required information and enter extra data to help the data recorded. In addition to this, templates empower clinicians to obviously and precisely record documentation subtleties that help the care given and shield the office from administrative or legitimate examination.
Guided workflows
This type of tool offers help for clinical, essential leadership in multi-step care designs and conventions that stretch out after some time. It gives proof based rules, suggestions, and pathways at the ideal time. Having this data promptly accessible can significantly build documentation effectiveness and decrease uneasiness that can accompany clinical choices.
Reminders and alerts
This is one of the most commonly used clinical decisions making too. Numerous EHRs have an alert cautions incorporated with the framework to inform end users of necessary moves that ought to be made and other updates. While essential as a rule, this kind of clinical decision-making tool ought to be utilized sparingly.
Achieving outcomes
At my facility, these tools always work together to ensure that clinicians deliver quality services to the patients. Firstly the tools enhance outcomes by reducing medical errors. The EHR technology enables the tools to improve care quality by reducing errors, increasing patients’ involvement and expanding care coordination between among the nurses. From a nursing point of view, the results of a patient can be made better by important use and examination of information gathered from the clinical decision-making tools. Secondly, these tools help in reducing unnecessary duplicate testing since the history of the patients is available and by doing so; this will reduce the care costs. Thirdly the tools enhance outcomes by delivering the right information at the right time due to good coordination and alert systems. The tools influence how nurses arrange and integrate the data they gather and get about patients and eventually, this will prompt improved coordination of nursing care. Since the technology used by these tools is effective diagnosis can be made faster hence saving lives.
The barrier of using clinical decision-making tools
In most cases, implementation of CDS may seem to be a challenge due to various obstacles. At my workplace, I have come across a few obstacles that influence the success of CDS. Firstly, the lack of an improved human-computer interface may pose a problem in instances where automatic alert are overridden causing the errors of omission. Another challenge is the failure of these tools to intelligently analyze patients’ information recorded in data form to make it one synopsis. CDS requires new interventions to improve patients’ safety. Another obstacle is the fear to introduce new technology in the system in the belief that it will modify current working practices and communication in the facility.