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Rebecca Jedwab1,2, Janette Gogler1,2, Rebecca Brook1
1Monash Health, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
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The Initial Patient Assessment (IPA) documentation within the selected healthcare organisation's electronic medical record (EMR) is a key component of nursing documentation and planning for patients' hospitalisations. Since its implementation in 2019, the EMR IPA documentation has not been re-assessed for usefulness or completeness. A project was developed to assess, re-design and implement an updated IPA using the Exploration, Preparation, Implementation, Sustainment (EPIS) framework. New IPA forms were co-designed with consumers and nurses to be more conversational and implemented across the organisation for neonatal admissions, paediatric admissions, adult admissions, and adult and paediatric day ward admissions. Improvement in completeness and usefulness was sustained, and this project filled a gap in the literature by providing a co-designed approach to nursing documentation within the EMR with end-users and consumers.
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