# Mercy said Microsoft Dragon Copilot's ambient nursing tool is in use on inpatient units at hospitals in St. Louis, Springfield and Fort Smith, turning narrated care into flow sheet documentation

Page: https://flyvolo.ai/en/changes/ev-20251104-registered-nurse-1
Date: 2025-11-04 · Stage: Deployment
Can this record move a task judgement? yes
Occupation: https://flyvolo.ai/en/careers/registered-nurse

## Scope

One US health system, inpatient units, early rollout; Mercy metrics provided by Microsoft show 8–24 minutes saved per shift for high-use nurses and a 29% reduction in incremental overtime. Mercy helped develop the tool with Microsoft, so the figures come from interested parties. Nurses review and edit before filing; documentation only, not clinical decisions.

## Source

- Mercy — newsroom — https://www.mercy.net/newsroom/2025-11-02/mercy-advances-groundbreaking-ai-tool-for-nursing-through-collab/ (primary source)

## What this means

A deployment record on the documentation task from the employer's side: a health system says ambient nursing documentation is in use on inpatient units at three hospitals, turning narrated care into flow sheet documentation for the electronic health record, with 8–24 minutes saved per shift for heavy users. It supports the task page's mechanism on the deployment layer — the tool attacks charting time and does not touch clinical decisions — and the nurse still reviews and edits before filing.

## What it does not show yet

Mercy helped develop the product with Microsoft, and the metrics were provided by Microsoft, so every figure here comes from interested parties in an early rollout; the 29% overtime cut is not attributed to nurses specifically and has no comparison group. It covers inpatient units in one US system, not clinics, community nursing or other record systems, and it says nothing about nurse staffing ratios.

## How to verify it yourself

On one shift, time your documentation in two buckets — flowsheet and structured fields versus free-text notes and handover — and note which is larger; ambient tools like this one target the first bucket, so your split shows how many of Mercy's 8–24 minutes could exist on your ward.


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