b'NURSING HIGHLIGHTS 2022PeopleProcess TechnologyNursing Informatics Council IV room. Year to date, pharmacy has processed over89,000 medicationsthrough this software, which has significantly The Nursing Informatics Council (NIC) was rebranded in 2022 increased the precision and accuracy for medication preparation. and expanded to include membership from all three hospitals. The council works closely with nursing leadership and subjectThe team also collaborated on the implementation of enhanced matter experts to identify system opportunities to supportdose range checking functionality in Cerner. This functionality workflow, patient safety or quality-based initiatives. The NIC teamalerts the user ordering the medication that the dose is out of also approves all system changes that impact nursing as a whole. typical range. In turn, the alerting reduces the number of out of The informatics team continues to support the advancement ofrange doses that require pharmacy intervention, overall resulting nurses with a specialty focus in informatics and optimization ofin a safer and more efficient process at the point of medication clinical systems. They also currently work with seven nurses fromordering and reduces delays to patients. This functionality went a variety of patient care departments who collaborate togetherlive in February of 2022 for Concord Hospital and August of 2022 to identify ways to improve the system to better serve our teams.for Concord Hospital - Laconia and Concord Hospital - Franklin.In the ambulatory space, the Informatics team worked withThe Pharmacy IT team also works closely with our Medication CHMG leaders and the Revenue Cycle IT team to develop aSafety Officer and Pharmacy and Nursing leadership tonew committee structure called Ambulatory/IT Collaborationcontinue to identify ways to improve medication safety across team. This team has representation from many of the CHMGthe enterprise.ambulatory practices and is the ambulatory governance group for Ambulatory IT system change requests. The Clinical Informatics team collaborates regularly with our Quality Department to identify trends through our iCare system where we have an opportunity to leverage clinical Medication Safety & Quality decision support and system tools to improve care. The Clinical Pharmacy, Medication Safety and Pharmacy InformaticsInformatics team has been very fortunate to work alongsideresources worked together to implement the IV prep softwaremany stakeholders throughout the organization over the past in early 2021. This solution offered safety gains with the IVyear to implement system changes to support our clinicians and compounding process through barcode scanning, photo capturepatients. The team looks forward to supporting new work over and weight base product confirmation within the Pharmacythe next year to continue to advance the organization.21'