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Electronic Health Record Instruction In First-Semester Nursing Students: A Comparative Study, Angela Ruckdeschel
Electronic Health Record Instruction In First-Semester Nursing Students: A Comparative Study, Angela Ruckdeschel
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The use of health information technology has been shown to have positive effects on patient outcomes and provider efficiency. New nurses make more than half of the 7 million life-threatening medication errors that occur each year, and electronic health records (EHRs) have been shown to significantly reduce these errors. Nurses now are expected to enter practice with a solid foundation in health information technology and the use of the EHR. Unfortunately, the vast majority of nursing schools do not specifically train their students in effective EHR utilization. Academic EHRs (AEHRs) are software packages with learning features that can be incorporated …