Academic readiness to teach electronic medical records education into pre-registration nursing programs. An integrative review

Digital health technologies, such as Electronic Medical Records (EMR) are seen as the preferred method for patient documentation in many healthcare settings (Australian nursing and midwifery accreditation council registered nurse accreditation standards, 2019; Mollart et al., 2023). Electronic patient record systems, also known as electronic health records (EHR) or EMR can be defined as a repository of patient data that is stored in a secured electronic form, which can be accessed by multiple authorised users (Elliott et al., 2018). EMRs have been implemented globally into healthcare facilities for over a decade to assist in the reduction of patient documentation errors, improve communication amongst the multi-disciplinary team, and to improve patient safety (Wilbanks et al., 2018).