Garrett Bernard, Klein Gerri
School of Nursing, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
J Clin Nurs. 2008 Aug;17(16):2146-54. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2702.2008.02351.x.
The aims were to explore advanced practice nurses' perceptions on wireless Personal Digital Assistant technologies, to establish the type and range of tools that would be useful to support their practice and to identify any requirements and limitations that may impact the implementation of wireless Personal Digital Assistants in practice.
The wireless Personal Digital Assistant is becoming established as a hand-held computing tool for healthcare professionals. The reflections of advanced practice nurses' about the value of wireless Personal Digital Assistants and its potential to contribute to improved patient care has not been investigated.
A qualitative interpretivist design was used to explore advanced practice nurses' perceptions on the value of wireless Personal Digital Assistant technologies to support their practice.
The data were collected using survey questionnaires and individual and focus group interviews with nurse practitioners, clinical nurse specialists and information technology managers based in British Columbia, Canada. An open-coding content analysis was performed using qualitative data analysis software.
Wireless Personal Digital Assistant's use supports the principles of pervasivity and is a technology rapidly being adopted by advanced practice nurses. Some nurses indicated a reluctance to integrate wireless Personal Digital Assistant technologies into their practices because of the cost and the short technological life cycle of these devices. Many of the barriers which precluded the use of wireless networks within facilities are being removed. Nurses demonstrated a complex understanding of wireless Personal Digital Assistant technologies and gave good rationales for its integration in their practice.
Nurses identified improved client care as the major benefit of this technology in practice and the type and range of tools they identified included clinical reference tools such as drug and diagnostic/laboratory reference applications and wireless communications.
Nurses in this study support integrating wireless mobile computing technologies into their practice to improve client care.
目的是探讨高级实践护士对无线个人数字助理技术的看法，确定有助于支持其实践的工具类型和范围，并识别可能影响无线个人数字助理在实践中实施的任何要求和限制。
无线个人数字助理正逐渐成为医疗保健专业人员的手持计算工具。尚未对高级实践护士对无线个人数字助理的价值及其对改善患者护理的潜力的看法进行调查。
采用定性解释主义设计来探讨高级实践护士对无线个人数字助理技术支持其实践的价值的看法。
通过调查问卷以及对加拿大不列颠哥伦比亚省的执业护士、临床护理专家和信息技术经理进行个人访谈和焦点小组访谈来收集数据。使用定性数据分析软件进行开放式编码内容分析。
无线个人数字助理的使用支持普及性原则，是一种正被高级实践护士迅速采用的技术。一些护士表示由于这些设备的成本和较短的技术生命周期，不愿将无线个人数字助理技术整合到他们的实践中。许多妨碍在机构内使用无线网络的障碍正在被消除。护士们对无线个人数字助理技术表现出复杂的理解，并为将其整合到实践中给出了合理的理由。
护士们认为在实践中这项技术的主要益处是改善患者护理，他们确定的工具类型和范围包括临床参考工具，如药物和诊断/实验室参考应用程序以及无线通信。
本研究中的护士支持将无线移动计算技术整合到他们的实践中以改善患者护理。
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