title: Teaching home care electronic documentation skills to undergraduate nursing students.
abstract: Although there is general consensus that nursing students need knowledge and significant skill to document clinical findings electronically, nursing faculty face many barriers in ensuring that undergraduate students can practice on electronic health record systems (EHRS). External funding supported the development of an educational innovation through a partnership between a home care agency staff and nursing faculty. Modules were developed to teach EHRS skills using a case study of a homebound person requiring wound care and the Medicare-required OASIS documentation system. This article describes the development and implementation of the module for an upper-level baccalaureate nursing program located in New York City. Nursing faculty are being challenged to develop creative and economical solutions to expose nursing students to EHRSs in nonclinical settings.
authors.affiliation: Hunter College, City University of New York Hunter-Bellevue School of Nursing, New York, New York, USA. knokes@hunter.cuny.edu
authors.forename: Kathleen M
authors.initials: KM
authors.lastname: Nokes
authors.forename: Judith
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Aponte
authors.forename: Donna M
authors.initials: DM
authors.lastname: Nickitas
authors.forename: Pamela Y
authors.initials: PY
authors.lastname: Mahon
authors.forename: Betsy
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Rodgers
authors.forename: Nancy
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Reyes
authors.forename: Joan
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Chaya
authors.forename: Martin
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Dornbaum
mesh_terms: D003152:Community Health Nursing / Q000193:education*; D003479:Curriculum; D004508:Education, Nursing, Baccalaureate; D057286:Electronic Health Records; D006699:Home Care Services; D006801:Humans; D007373:Interinstitutional Relations; D009519:New York City; D016730:Program Development; D012883:Skin Ulcer / Q000451:nursing; D014584:User-Computer Interface