Enhancing Simulation: A Roadmap for Integrating the Electronic Health Record into the Nurse Practitioner Curriculum

The exponential growth of health information technology (IT) has implications for patient safety, quality management, and healthcare costs (Centers  for Medicare& Medicaid Services  [CMS], 2023; HealthIT.gov, 2019b). One example of health IT is the electronic health record (EHR). The EHR is a digital version of an individual's medical record providing centralized access to data for direct and indirect care activities and tracking clinical outcomes (CMS, 2023). EHR proficien cy is required to efficiently navigate the software to diagnose, prescribe, and document care; however, basic-level training commonly occurs on the job with fluency improving through experimentation, which may result in underutilization of EHR features and errors in data retrieval or documentation ( American Medical Association [AMA], 2023; HealthIT.gov, 2022; Mohan, Garrison,& Gold, 2021).
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