Undergraduate nursing students' satisfaction and self-confidence accessing and using electronic medical records in the clinical environment after electronic medical record education in the nursing laboratory

Undergraduate nursing students' satisfaction and self-confidence accessing and using electronic medical records in the clinical environment after electronic medical record education in the nursing laboratory

Electronic medical records (EMR) have been implemented into the clinical healthcare environment to help develop effective clinical thinking, enhance patient documentation, and improve safe patient-focussed care. As Australian healthcare facilities strive towards the digital ages, the academic environment lags in the implementation of EMR into curricula due to cost, knowledge, and software support. Delays to the implementation of EMR into the academic curricula can lead to undergraduate nursing students being ill prepared to document patient data using EMR on clinical placement, impacting satisfaction and self-confidence accessing and using EMR. A retrospective, quasi experimental, single blind, post-test two group (intervention [EMR and paper] and control [paper]) cross-sectional research design was used to address the aim, hypotheses and research questions of the research project as measured by The Modified Student Satisfaction and Self-Confidence in Patient Documentation survey. Participants from one, (four campuses), regional Australian university (N=113) completed the post-test survey and reported no significant statistical differences after receiving paper or/and EMR education on satisfaction and self-confidence when documenting patient data on clinical placement. Findings from this research project identify the importance of EMR education on undergraduate nursing student’s satisfaction and self-confidence. Further research into improving EMR knowledge for undergraduate nursing students is needed.

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