Medical-Surgical Nursing:Assessment and Managementof Clinical Problems 9th Edition by Sharon Lewis,Shannon Ruff Dirksen,Margaret McLean Heitkemper,Linda Bucher

Exercise 19

The nurse working in a health care facility where uniform electronic health records are used explains to the patient that the primary purpose of such a record is to
A) reduce the cost of health care by eliminating paper records.
B) prevent medical errors associated with traditional paper records and handwritten orders and prescriptions.
C) force the use of standardized medical vocabularies and nursing terminologies so that outcomes of patient care can be measured.
D) provide a single record in which all aspects of a patient's medical information are readily available to any health care provider involved in the patient's care.