Stop, Drop, and Roll! Is Electronic Health Record Documentation The Forgotten Skill?

Integrating EHR training into the current curriculum and setting the standard for how students are trained to document patient care while in training helps alleviate stress from healthcare organizations, students, and the patients they serve. This presentation will share how the lack of EHR documentation skills has the potential to delay, detour, and destroy nursing professional advancements while directly impacting workforce readiness.  

• Describe how documentation tools in nursing have evolved over the years.  
• Understand the value of documentation skills as a stand-alone skill and when used in conjunction with all other skills.  
• Learn the importance of early and ongoing EHR training for all nursing students and faculty to gain valuable clinical documentation experience, skill, and competence.
• Employ the presented material in their own educational environment and leverage documentation skills opportunities for an enhanced learning and developmental experience.

KBN Approval.  This offering for contact hours is provided by the Kentucky Nurses Association (KNA). Kentucky Nurses Association (KNA) is an approved provider of continuing nursing education by the Kentucky Board of Nursing (KBN). KBN Provider Number: 1-0001.  KBN CE Providership Approval through December 31, 2025.  KBN approval of an individual continuing nursing education provider does not constitute endorsement of program/offering content. 50 minutes = 1.0 KBN Contact Hour.