Browsing by Author "John, Ritamarie"
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- ItemDevelopment and evaluation of a PDA-based decision support system for pediatric depression screening.(2007-10-03) John, Ritamarie; Buschman, Penélope; Chaszar, Mosely; Honig, Judy; Mendonca, Eneida; Bakken, SuzanneDepression is under recognized in a variety of pediatric settings The purpose of this paper is to describe the development and initial evaluation of a personal digital assistant PDA based decision support system DSS for pediatric depression screening in ages 8 to 18 years of age by pediatric advanced practice nurse APN students Three aspects are described selection of depression screening instrument integration of the instrument into the PDA and quantitative usage and qualitative focus group evaluation Only one third of eligible patients were screened Twenty percent of those screened were identified as at risk for mood disorder The barriers to screening identified through focus groups included a lack of time knowledge intervention protocol referral resources PDA usability issues preceptor motivation and comfort as well as perceived or real cultural barriers Suggestions for educational research and interventions to integrate clinical based PDA based screening are discussed
- ItemFunctional requirements specification and data modeling for a PDA-based decision support system for the screening and management of obesity.(2007-01-22) Lee, Nam-Ju; John, Ritamarie; Bakken, SuzanneThe purposes of this study were to identify the functional requirements of and to build the data model for a PDA DSS Through Use Case Analysis and UML modeling seven Use Cases were documented and Use Case Diagrams Activity Diagrams and Sequence Diagrams related to the management of were developed
- ItemUsefulness of a personal digital assistant-based advanced practice nursing student clinical log: Faculty stakeholder exemplars.(2006-11-14) Bakken, Suzanne; Jenkins, Melinda; Choi, Jeeyae; Hyun, Sookyung; John, Ritamarie; Joyce, Myra; Lee, Nam-Ju; Roberts, Wm Dan; Soupios, MichaelThe number of health sciences educational programs that are integrating personal digital assistants PDAs into their curricula is on the rise In this paper we report an evaluation of the usefulness of a PDA based advanced practice nursing APN student clinical log through faculty stakeholder exemplars in three areas pediatric asthma care procedures of Acute Care Nurse Practitioner NP students and diagnostic and screening procedures of Women s Health NP students We generated descriptive data through routine queries and through custom SQL queries at the request of a specific faculty member who wished to examine a particular aspect of an educational program In addition we discussed the potential implications of the data with the respective faculty members The exemplars provide evidence that faculty stakeholders found the APN student clinical log to be useful for a variety of purposes including monitoring of student performance benchmarking and quality of care assessments