Ambulatory Clinician's Guide to Inpatient Service: An Innovative Rapid Onboarding Strategy for the COVID-19 Pandemic.
Appl Clin Inform
; 11(5): 802-806, 2020 10.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE | ID: covidwho-954961
ABSTRACT
BACKGROUND AND SIGNIFICANCE:
When hospitals are subject to prolonged surges in patients, such as during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, additional clinicians may be needed to care for the rapid increase of acutely ill patients. How might we quickly prepare a large number of ambulatory-based clinicians to care for hospitalized patients using the inpatient workflow of the electronic health record (EHR)?OBJECTIVES:
The aim of the study is to create a successful training intervention which prepares ambulatory-based clinicians as they transition to inpatient services.METHODS:
We created a training guide with embedded videos that describes the workflow of an inpatient clinician. We delivered this intervention via an e-mail hyperlink, a static hyperlink inside of the EHR, and an on-demand hyperlink within the EHR.RESULTS:
In anticipation of the first peak of inpatients with COVID-19 in April 2020, the training manual was accessed 261 times by 167 unique users as clinicians anticipated being called into service. As our institution has not yet needed to deploy ambulatory-based clinicians for inpatient service, usage data of the training document is still pending.CONCLUSION:
We intend that our novel implementation of a multimedia, highly accessible onboarding document with access from points inside and outside of the EHR will improve clinician performance and serve as a helpful example to other organizations during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond.
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International databases
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Health Personnel
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Practice Guidelines as Topic
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Pandemics
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Inventions
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Ambulatory Care Facilities
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COVID-19
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Inpatients
Type of study:
Observational study
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Prognostic study
Limits:
Humans
Language:
English
Journal:
Appl Clin Inform
Year:
2020
Document Type:
Article
Affiliation country:
S-0040-1719042
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