Reducing administrative work for nurses on hospital wards

Our nurses estimate that a third of each shift goes into documentation, phone calls and searching for equipment. Patient care suffers and staff turnover is rising. We formed a small team of nurses, IT staff and managers to find the biggest time drains.

Early quick wins included barcode scanning for medication rounds, fixed storage locations for common supplies and replacing several paper forms with one digital handover note. The harder part is integrating systems that don't talk to each other. Which changes freed up real time for clinical staff in your organisation?