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Nurse Research Scientist Bonnie Adrian works to make it possible for nurses to spend more time with patients. Photo by Molly Blake, UCHealth.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Nurse scientist gives more time with patients<\/strong><\/h2>\n

People don\u2019t become nurses because they love data entry. Bonnie Adrian went back to school to become a nurse because she wanted to make a greater impact on people\u2019s lives.<\/p>\n

The UCHealth nurse research scientist leads Project Joy, a team that improves the electronic-health record (EHR), allowing\u00a0 colleagues to spend more time taking care of patients and less time in front of a computer.<\/p>\n

Project Joy\u2019s outcomes have attracted national attention to UCHealth leadership in addressing EHR burden. Project Joy saves\u00a0 nurses 18 minutes per 12-hour shift on charting, a decrease of more than 350 million clicks per year.<\/p>\n

\u201cEHR burden negatively affects clinicians in two ways,\u201d says Adrian. \u201cDocumentation burden wastes clinician time entering data that lacks value for patient care. Cognitive burden consumes mental bandwidth, which increases risks for clinical errors. Project Joy decreases clutter, to put visual focus on what is meaningful, what matters.\u201d<\/p>\n

When she enrolled in nursing school, Adrian already had a doctorate\u00a0in socio-cultural anthropology. She was a professor at the University of Denver teaching students who weren\u2019t as engaged as she\u2019d hoped.<\/p>\n

\u201cI said, \u2018Why am I using my talents in this way? I want to make a difference in this world,\u2019\u201d she said. \u201cI was longing for an opportunity to have a greater impact.\u201d<\/p>\n

Adrian enrolled in nursing school and graduated during the Great Recession. Unable to find clinical work, she was introduced through campus connections to then-Chief Nursing Officer Carolyn Sanders with University of Colorado Hospital, who hired her for an opportunity to use her skills for both research and health care.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn archaeology, you go to a site and you try to figure out where there might be artifacts. You pull things out of the ground to understand past civilizations. Ancient people didn\u2019t put those things there for you to learn about,\u201d Adrian said. \u201cI started looking at electronic health records as archaeology \u2013 so many things in the EHR can be used for purposes beyond the original reason why the data was captured, to understand health care delivery processes.\u201d<\/p>\n

For example, barcode medication scanning exists to improve medication administration safety and record accuracy, but that information can also be used to learn about nursing practice and improve care.<\/p>\n

UCHealth Director of Clinical Informatics Alice Pekarek said Adrian\u2019s position is unique in the information technology world. Few health systems in the United States support a research nurse scientist on a clinical informatics team within IT.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a tribute to UCHealth leadership understanding that rapidly-changing technologies present opportunities to challenge the status quo and to do things differently,\u201d Pekarek said. \u201cBonnie has the perfect skill set and personality to take on a project like Project Joy.\u201d<\/p>\n

Adrian\u2019s use of EHR data for research led to the development of Project Joy. Sometimes, the data that nurses are required to manually enter into EHR is unnecessarily tedious and \u201cnon-meaningful,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cLooking at the data on the back end for research studies, we can see that nursing staff too often enter data that is inaccurate, contradictory or missing. We cannot advance the field of nursing without complete and accurate data to fuel research. The EHR presents nursing staff with too many meaningless data fields, to the point where nurses don\u2019t know where to focus documentation time and care.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIf the EHR doesn\u2019t respect the nurse, is the nurse going to respect the EHR?\u201d she said. \u201cHow do we create systems of documentation that are less burdensome and generate more accurate information?\u201d<\/p>\n

Project Joy includes a committee of 55 participants with clinical nurses from all inpatient practice areas and regions along with representatives from areas such as legal, risk, quality and regulatory. The committee\u2019s breadth is designed to ensure optimizations align with the many uses of health records.<\/p>\n

The team presented its work at multiple national conferences including the American Nurses Credentialing Center\u2019s 2019 Magnet Conference in Orlando, Florida. In January, Project Joy presented at 25 By 5: Symposium to Reduce Documentation Burden on U.S. Clinicians by 75% by 2025. The symposium was hosted by Columbia University\u2019s Department of Biomedical Informatics.<\/p>\n

Project Joy was featured in Florence Health, a New York City-based publication for frontline health professionals, under the title \u201cMeet the Team of Nurses Who Revolutionized Their Hospital\u2019s EHR System.\u201d<\/p>\n

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