ANIA
2021
August 7, 2021 --
I'm home now from yet another enjoyable and educational American Nursing Informatics Association (ANIA)
national conference, held this year in San Diego.
We're all vaccinated so Covid worries were none. Hurray, no masks!
And as far as I know, there was no super-spreading.
In the photo: front row: half the Board (Helen Lu, Tip Tilton, Dan Keller) of the Bay Area (BANIA) chapter.
Back row: half the Board of the San Diego chapter (Matthew Binder, Kathy Topp).
Hot topic of the day? "Documentation burden" on nurses. In other
words, too much time in front of the computer. Evidently, it's a
national goal to re-engineer these processes and UIs to reduce
this by 75% within a couple of years or so.
While well-intentioned, this misses the point. It's not that we have to
do too much documentation (though we do) it's that the job
definition is misguided. Much of the excessive picking and
clicking is driven by that "doctor's handmaiden" view of nursing
that we can't seem to shake.
It's nit-picky because it assumes
no clinical judgment; we must be prompted for every detail
because we wouldn't think of (or do) it independently. (No one
said these things in the presentations; it's my own opinion.)
Nostalgia was expressed for the charting-by-exception
we used to do in the "good ol' days" of paper charts. I do
remember that. We got our charting done quickly
that way. An efficient process that has been lost in the
transition away from paper. I guess I'm an old-timer,
sigh. Somebody even wistfully mentioned the Kardex.
The youngsters just said, "Huh?"
Go wise old nurses and smart, up-and-coming young ones!
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