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ForwardEnhancing Patient Safety and Documentation Through Pump Interoperability
The Enhancing Patient Safety and Documentation Through Pump Interoperability enduring module is a recording from the live Regularly Scheduled Series held on November 12, 2025. If you received credit for attending this session during the live meeting, please refrain from claiming credit for this module.
Medication administration remains a high-risk process in clinical care, with manual pump programming identified as a significant contributor to infusion-related errors. These errors can compromise patient safety, increase adverse events, and reduce the reliability of electronic health record (EHR) documentation. There is a need for education to enhance clinicians’ understanding of how smart pump interoperability can eliminate manual programming steps, thereby reducing medication errors and improving the timeliness and completeness of infusion documentation within the EHR. Additionally, aligning medication order entry with the smart pump drug library and standardizing concentrations—particularly for high-alert medications—is essential to ensure consistency with best practices and promote safe, efficient infusion management. This activity will address these needs by providing learners with strategies to optimize interoperability, improve documentation accuracy, and strengthen medication safety across care settings.
Target Audience
UK HealthCare Registered Nurses and Licensed Practical Nurses
Learning Objectives
After this session, participants will be able to:
- Explain how eliminating manual pump programming can reduce medication errors and enhance patient safety
- Describe how pump interoperability improves the timeliness and completeness of infusion documentation within the EHR
- Recognize the importance of aligning medication order entry with the smart pump drug library and standardizing concentrations and preparations of infusions, particularly for high-alert medications, to ensure alignment with best practices
Dr. Jessica Collins is the Chief Nursing Information Officer at University of Kentucky HealthCare, where she leads enterprise-wide informatics strategy to advance patient safety, digital innovation, and nursing excellence. With nearly two decades of clinical and leadership experience, she has guided large-scale EHR optimization, AI integration, and technology adoption to enhance workflow efficiency and care quality across a complex health system. Jessica earned her Doctor of Nursing Practice in Executive Leadership from the University of Kentucky, with a capstone focused on reducing nursing documentation burden through EHR optimization. A board-certified Informatics Nurse (NI-BC), she is an active member of ANIA, HIMSS, and AACN, and was recognized by Becker’s Hospital Review as one of “58 Hospital and Health System CMIOs and CNIOs to Know” in 2025.
Available Credit
- 1.00 ANCC (UK Healthcare CECentral)
In support of improving patient care, UK HealthCare CECentral is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), and the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.
The maximum number of hours awarded for this Continuing Nursing Education activity is 1.00 nursing contact hour(s).