Nurses on a busy medical schedule want to reduce documentation time and improve order entry.Additionally,patient records from previous visits are often incomplete or do not include care from other providers.To improve patient care,a taskforce suggests using an Electronic Medical Record for 1 month to determine whether this provides the desired outcomes.This unit is participating in which type of study?
A) Ethnography
B) Pilot
C) Secondary data analysis
D) Phenomenology

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A pilot study is a small-scale preliminary study conducted to evaluate feasibility, time, cost, risk, and adverse events involved in a research project, often used to test the design of a larger study. In this case, using an Electronic Medical Record (EMR) system for 1 month to assess its impact on documentation time, order entry, and completeness of patient records fits the definition of a pilot study, as it aims to explore the feasibility and outcomes of implementing EMR in a real-world setting before potentially adopting it more broadly.

Nurses on a Busy Medical Schedule Want to Reduce Documentation