At University Health Kansas City, frontline nurses are working together to redesign IT systems. Their goal: reduce burnout, cut alert fatigue and return thousands of hours to patient care. Amy McTaggart, DNP, RN, chief nursing officer at University Health Kansas City Hospitals have spent years promising that technology would make healthcare easier for nurses. Instead, many clinicians found themselves juggling disconnected systems, endless alarms and mounting administrative tasks that pulled them farther away from patients. 'As chief nursing officer at University Health Kansas City, I have seen how technologies designed to support clinicians can unintentionally add complexity and burden at…
Hospitals have spent years promising that technology would make healthcare easier for nurses. Instead, many clinicians found themselves juggling disconnected systems, endless alarms and mounting administrative tasks that pulled them farther away from patients.
Amy McTaggart, DNP, RN, has seen it happen firsthand.
'As chief nursing officer at University Health Kansas City, I have seen how technologies designed to support clinicians can unintentionally add complexity and burden at the bedside,' said McTaggart.
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