Paper Info
Title
An Examination of the Mediating Role for a Nursing Information System
Abstract
This paper reports on findings from an examination of a nursing information system through the lens of Activity Theory. The information system was designed to support real-time nursing documentation in acute care hospital contexts. The objective was to enable superior nursing care to ensue by providing nurses with the opportunity to document patient care data into a tablet computer located at the patient bedside. The system was evaluated in a not-for-profit acute care hospital's wards during its implementation. Nurses' interactions with the system and their perceptions were collected and analysed through the lens of Activity Theory. The analysis highlighted nurses' positive attitude towards the system and identified potential mediation capabilities as well as areas for improvements. Activity Theory was found to be useful to examine the positive and potentially problematic aspects of this new nursing information system.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.3127/ajis.v21i0.1387
AUSTRALASIAN JOURNAL OF INFORMATION SYSTEMS
Keywords
Field
DocType
Activity theory,nursing informatics,health information systems,electronic documentation
Primary nursing,Information system,Nursing,Nursing Outcomes Classification,Computer science,Acute care,Nurse education,Nursing care,Nursing research,Health informatics
Journal
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
21
1449-8618
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Lemai Nguyen117617.41
Nilmini Wickramasinghe237198.87