Module 2 information system

At my previous hospital, DRMC in St. George, the nurses on our floor decided to get involved in improving the system we used for charting. We discussed, in several small groups, how to improve our charting by changing and adding to the sections that automatically "popped up" in our patient assessment charting. Patient Education/Teaching was being done but not being charted. We asked for this section to be a required area every day. In order to improve our flu and pneumonia vaccination numbers we asked that vaccinations be a required area of charting. At the moment I am looking into what can be done to improve the time between the dictation of physician progress notes and their transcription to HELP 2, the EHR we use.