Standardizing documentation for postoperative nausea and vomiting in the electronic health record.
Postoperative nausea and vomiting (PONV) remains a common postoperative complication that causes patient discomfort and increases health care costs. Clinicians use the American Society of PeriAnesthesia Nurses (ASPAN) guideline to help prevent and treat PONV. However, the lack of standardized terminology in the electronic health record (EHR) and the lack of clinical decision support tools make it difficult for clinicians to document guideline implementation and to determine the effects of nursing care on PONV. To address this, we created a concept map of the Perioperative Nursing Data Set (PNDS) that illustrates the relationship between elements of this standardized nursing terminology and the ASPAN guideline, using the Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine-Clinical Terms multidisciplinary terminology to fill any gaps. This mapping results in a standardized dataset specific to PONV for use in an EHR, which links nursing care to nursing diagnoses, interventions, and outcomes. The mapping and documentation in the EHR also allows standardized data collection for research, evaluation, and benchmarking, which makes perioperative nursing care of patients who are at risk for or experiencing PONV measureable and visible. Distributing this information to perioperative and perianesthesia nursing personnel, in addition to implementing risk assessment tools for PONV and clinical support alerts in electronic documentation systems, will help support implementation of the PONV clinical practice guideline in the EHR.
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DeBlieck
Anne Fishman
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LaFlamme
Mary Jane
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Rivard
Karen A
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Monsen
D000465:Algorithms; D000932:Antiemetics / Q000627:therapeutic use; D004329:Droperidol / Q000627:therapeutic use; D057286:Electronic Health Records; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D009733:Nursing Diagnosis; D009737:Nursing Records; D020250:Postoperative Nausea and Vomiting / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000451:nursing*; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D018570:Risk Assessment; D009626:Terminology as Topic
D000932:Antiemetics; D004329:Droperidol
EHR; PNDS; PONV; Perioperative Nursing Data Set; electronic health record; postoperative nausea and vomiting; postoperative nursing; standardized nursing terminology