Problem Statement

Hospitals run ongoing nursing chart audits to confirm documentation and care standards are being met, and doing them manually means a reviewer opens each patient's chart and reads through it against an audit form. Patient weights are a focused audit because an accurate, current weight drives weight-based medication dosing, nutrition, and fluid management, so a missing or inconsistent weight is a patient-safety signal worth catching daily. Reviewing every chart for this manually is repetitive and easy to let slip, and a delayed audit means weight-documentation gaps go unflagged.

Automation Solution

This automation runs the daily Epic patient-weights report, reads the patient data to complete the chart audit form, and uploads the completed audits to SharePoint.