Title
How are Electronic Medical Records Used by Nurse Practitioners?
Abstract
In this paper we describe how nurse practitioners (NPs) use electronic medical records (EMR) features and functions at: (1) an individual and (2) a clinic level to support patient wellness and chronic disease management activities. Fifteen NPs from British Columbia (BC), Canada participated in a qualitative, semi-structured interview study. NPs used EMRs with individual patients and at a clinic level to support wellness and chronic disease management activities. NP's used clinic notes, reminders, tasks and careplans to support wellness and disease management activities in individual patients while reports were used to manage patients at a clinic level.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.3233/978-1-61499-432-9-196
Studies in Health Technology and Informatics
Keywords
Field
DocType
nurse practitioners,electronic medical records,adoption,nursing informatics
Nursing,Oncology nursing,Nurse education,Medical record,Health informatics,Medicine
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
205
0926-9630
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
7