Abstract
Nurses search for different kinds of overview in their use of data for clinical care. This study of nurses’ shift of duties on a internal medical ward points to three kinds of overview: i. an overview in the beginning of their duty in order to plan and distribute the coming work tasks of their day, evening or night shift, ii an individual, professional overview in order to envi-sion the course of care events within their hours of duty, and iii. an overview of the situation of each individual patient. The nurses gather information from numerous sources, verbally as well as written on paper or electronically. The identification and descriptions of clinical constellations of data can inform on system design in order to improve on usability and utility of information systems in clinical practices. Qualitative methods of observations and focus group interviews were used studying the logic of nurses’ information practice.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | HFE2007 proceedings. 2nd Conference on Human Factors Engineering in Health Informatics |
| Editors | Pernille Bertelsen, Peter Elkin, Inge Madsen, Christian Nøhr |
| Number of pages | 41 |
| Publisher | Virtual Centre for Health Informatics, Aalborg University |
| Publication date | 2007 |
| Pages | 38 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9788798626480 |
| Publication status | Published - 2007 |
| Event | Human Factors Engineering in Health Informatics - Århus, Denmark Duration: 7 Jun 2007 → 8 Jun 2007 Conference number: 2nd |
Conference
| Conference | Human Factors Engineering in Health Informatics |
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| Number | 2nd |
| Country | Denmark |
| City | Århus |
| Period | 07/06/2007 → 08/06/2007 |
Keywords
- usability
- utility
- distributed cognition
- human computer interaction
- information system
- evaluation