Technology has changed the world, and health information technology (HIT) will continue to have an enormous impact on healthcare delivery processes and structures. Many hospitals use implementation and optimization of the electronic health record (EHR) as an opportunity to streamline, standardize, and improve care processes.1 i To sustain these efforts, it is essential to design workflows to support the use of the valuable data contained in the EHR and mined from other technologies to promote care coordination, best practices, and quality improvement.Frequently, critical care nurses are not fully invested in this work, leaving content development, workflow redesign, and innovation explorations to nurse informaticists and others. Unfortunately, this leaves nurses at a significant disadvantage. Nursing is now a multigenerational workforce and everyone needs to be fluent in the language of technology.
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