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Outcomes in Nursing
Winter 2008
In this Issue:
Sunrise Knowledge-Based Charting: Raising the Bar
With 50-percent more evidence-based content, updates to existing content and a number of new features, the latest release of Sunrise Knowledge-Based Charting™ raises the bar of interdisciplinary clinical documentation and support for patient-focused care. This new version includes new or enhanced flowsheets, structured notes, and clinical practice guidelines. A set of new scales and screening tools also helps make patient care safer. In addition, we have adapted the Knowledge-Based Charting user interface to take better advantage of the newest Sunrise Clinical Manager functionality.
Every Patient Has A Story: CHEO
At the Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario (Ottawa, ON), making sure that every clinician understands each patient's story is a priority. To help interdisciplinary care teams come together on this story, CHEO is implementing Sunrise Knowledge-Based Charting. This interview with Judy Plourde, BScN, MHsA, CHE, director of eHealth, who has been instrumental in bringing this solution to CHEO. She talks about the challenge of changing established practice patterns at this 167-bed pediatric hospital. More importantly, she talks about the how having a single story for each patient is enhancing patient care and improving nurse satisfaction.
From the Front Lines to the Boardroom
This article by Linda C. Lewis, RN, MSA, CNAA, BC, FACHE, vice president of Patient Care and CNO at The Valley Hospital (Ridgewood, NJ) focuses on efforts to improve care quality, cost management, and patient and staff satisfaction. The Valley was initially motivated by a desire to reduce nursing turnover and vacancy rates and over-reliance on agency nurses out of concern for both care quality and the cost of that care. It turned to Van Slyck & Associates (now part of Eclipsys) and implemented Sunrise Patient Acuity, a patient classification system that is sensitive to both professional nursing and the complexities of today's patient care. Linda talks about some of the dramatic results achieved since implementing Sunrise Patient Acuity back in 2000.
Synchronous Care with Outcomes-focused Scheduling
Most nursing executives will readily admit that staffing and scheduling remain more complex and challenging than it seems as if they should be. Eclipsys recently introduced two additions to Eclipsys' Nurse Executive Solutions - Sunrise Demand Manager and Sunrise Staff Manager, both powered by AtStaff - to help bring an outcomes focus to care-demand management and staff scheduling. This article provides an overview of these new offerings from Eclipsys.
HIMSS and Nursing: From the New Eclipsys CNIO Victoria Bradley, RN, DNP, FHIMSS, joined the Eclipsys family as chief nursing informatics officer in October 2007. In this interview, Vicky talks about her objectives and what she hopes to accomplish in this newly created role. A tireless advocate of nursing informatics, her work as the current vice chair of HIMSS puts her at the cutting edge of the healthcare information technology revolution.
Legislative Update for Nursing
In this article, find out how Eclipsys is helping shape the contribution of healthcare information revolution through advocacy and participation in standards development. Eclipsys participates in the American Health Information Community, the organization responsible for creating the "use cases" that are used to develop the Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology's benchmarks for certification. Find out how these organizations, as well as the work of state and federal governments, will have a number of potential implications for our clients related to nursing generally and nurse staffing in particular.
