Help your nurses make evidence-based decisions at the point of care with RCNi Decision Support
RCNi Decision Support is an interactive point-of-care tool designed to help nurses make evidence-based decisions when assessing and treating patients. It provides fast and easy access to a single trusted source of up-to-date guidance and actionable best-practice information to support your nurses critical thinking and decision-making.
RCNi Decision Support includes more than 100 peer-reviewed topics which have been selected based on what will have biggest impact on patient safety and standards of care. It's the only decision-support tool created exclusively for nurses in the UK.
How does RCNi Decision Support work?
RCNi Decision Support is designed to be used at the point of care and is accessible via a mobile-optimised website and app. Each topic highlights decisions that need to be made in the immediate or early part of assessment/treatment by asking the nurse to answer questions based on patient observations. It then provides guidance on how to proceed based on answers entered by the nurse.
The tool does not make the decisions for the nurse but rather supports and guides them through the process and provides them with the information they need, every step of the way.
- RCNi Decision Support covers 23 specialties which have wide applicability across the general workforce in both acute and community sectors
- Includes over 100 topics that focus on best practice, current evidence, patient safety and reducing common errors in practice
- Content draws on the latest evidence-based research
- All the topics have been written by experts in their respective fields of nursing
- Content has been subjected to an internal and external peer-review process
- Topics are updated as soon as guidelines and evidence change to ensure your nurses always have access to guidance that is up to date.
Specialities covered
- Infection control
- Medicines management
- Nutrition
- Diabetes
- Mental health
- Resuscitation
- ICU
- Endocrinology
- Bowel & kidney
- Respiratory
- IV therapy
- Pain
- Safeguarding
- Pharmacology
- Wound care
- First aid
- Communication
- Children
- Midwifery
- Pre & post pregnancy
- Venous cannula
- Cardiac
- General
RCNi Decision Support will:
Standardise nursing practice within your organisation
Promotes a consistently high standard of care by ensuring all staff are following the same guidance that is evidence-based and up to date. Every nurse will deliver the same exceptional quality of care in every setting.
Improve patient experience, safety and outcomes
Provides your nurses with evidence-based information underpinned by current guidance at the point of care. This means safer and better quality of care for your patients, lower mortality rates and improved CQC reports.
Save your nurses time and facilitate more efficient delivery of care
Increases speed of assessment, eliminates wasted time spent on unreliable Internet searches, and reduces the number of unnecessary investigations.
Help reduce the number of mistakes
It will ensure compliance with current national guidelines and reduce the opportunity for error. Topics cover key safety issues and never events. Fewer mistakes mean fewer complaints and improved patient experience.
Always provide your nurses with the latest guidance
Content will always be up to date and compliant with current national guidelines and policies – topics will be updated as soon as guidance changes.
Save you money
Use of RCNi Decision Support will help reduce the cost of ordering expensive tests (e.g. x-rays) when they are not needed.
Help you retain nursing staff
Investing in and empowering your nurses to make more clinical decisions autonomously will help increase staff engagement and loyalty.
Allow you to review decisions made
The tool saves summaries of all decisions made by your nurses and a time log, which can be cross-referenced with patient records and reviewed later if required
Empower your nurses with greater confidence to make clinical decisions
It will facilitate delivery of care in both familiar and unfamiliar settings or situations, by giving them access to a reliable source of information when uncertain due to lack of knowledge or experience. It will offer reassurance over appropriate investigations and medications.
Optimised for point of care
Succinct, simple, evidence-based guidance that is quick and user friendly to use at the point of care
Intuitive to use
Quick and clean navigation - the tool requires minimum training, which will help maximise staff engagement
Mobile friendly
The RCNi Decusion Support website is fully mobile optimised. Apps are available for iOS and Android devices for times with no WiFi, which means clinical guidance can be accessed anytime and anywhere
Summaries of decisions made
'My summaries' section located at the end of the topic reminds the nurse of what answers they have given and can be reviewed and changed if they feel they have answered something incorrectly
Simple user management system
Your appointed administrator can easily upload your organisation's users and manage their accounts (this includes activating and deactivating users, amending their contact details and resending activation emails and reseting passwords)
Red flags
Ensures immediate action is taken when needed and gives clear instruction when to escalate
Acronym, glossary and bibliography sections
Explanations and additional material for nurses with less topic experience
Interactive tools
Includes nursing calculators and toolkits to save time and improve decision making e.g. Verbal rating scale, Numeric rating scale, AVPU scale, Abbey Pain scale, Cha2052-Vasc
Customisable
You can add annotation to alert users to local policies and ensure guidance is relevant to your organisation
Insightful usage reports
You can track the number of completed topics by individual user, across departments and your organisation as a whole. You can also easily access records of decision summaries by individual nurse and a corresponding time log, which can be cross referenced with patient records. The line manager can check all decisions made and review if any errors in decision making were made
RCNi Decision Support is a great solution for organisations looking to improve the quality and efficiency of patient care. We offer great value for money and support every step of the way to ensure your staff engage with the tool.
If you would like to receive more information, see a demo or try RCNi Decision Support for free, simply let us know by contacting us below.
