The article that I have read explored onto how nurses preceive the use of electronic health record in everyday practice and delivery of care. Based from what I have learned from our Nursing Informatics class, integration of EHR assists in the transition of data, information and knowledge into action. Also, they provide applications which can be used to furtyher support the nursing practice and improve the quality of care as well as to evaluate outcomes of care.

Nowadays, electronic patient records are  used and has become the main method of documentation in the nursing practice in certain countries. According to the article, emerging evidence suggests that they fail to capture the essence of clinical practice and support the most frequent end-users: nurses. They mentioned that the general impact of using EPR in the ward was not still explored.

To determine how nurses see the implementation of EHR in the healthcare setting, focus group interviews were conducted having 23 registered nurses as the interviewees. It was a qualitative study of the data and analysed by content analysis. During the time where the interviews were conducted, EPR's has been in use for already a year.

As a result, nurses reported that EPR's don't support nursing practice in terms of documenting  crucial patient information such as vital signs. From what I have learned for NI, I thought that computer applications which will be used when the EHR is already implemented in a health institute already includes allowing nurses to document client's vital signs.

I agree to what the conclusion in the article said, that the view and suggestions of the nurses who are considered as the primary users of the EHR in a hospital institute should be taken into consideration when designing a CIS and the EHR itself so that, specific nursing needs are met and that patient's safety is promoted.

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