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- ItemNursing students' experience of using a personal digital assistant (PDA) in clinical practice - an intervention study.(2013-09-16) Johansson, Pauline E; Petersson, Göran I; Nilsson, Gunilla CBACKGROUND A personal digital assistant PDA is a multifunctional information and communication tool allowing nursing students to keep up to date with expanding health related knowledge OBJECTIVES This study was aimed at exploring nursing students experience of using a PDA in clinical practice METHOD In this intervention study nursing students n 67 used PDAs during a period of 15 weeks replied to questionnaires and participated in focus group interviews RESULTS The PDA was found to support nursing students in clinical practice and to have the potential to be a useful tool with benefits for both the patients and for the students The PDA was regarded as useful and was presumed to imply increased confidence and time savings and contribute to improved patient safety and quality of care CONCLUSIONS With available mobile technology nursing students would be able to access necessary information independent of time and place Therefore it is important that stakeholders and educators facilitate the use of PDAs to support nursing students during their clinical practice in order to prepare them for their future work and to continuously improve the safety and quality of healthcare
- ItemPersonal digital assistant with a barcode reader--a medical decision support system for nurses in home care.(2010-03-08) Johansson, Pauline E; Petersson, Göran I; Nilsson, Gunilla CINTRODUCTION Inappropriate medication among elderly people increases the risk of adverse drug drug interactions drug related falls and hospital admissions In order to prevent these effects it is necessary to obtain a profile of the patients medication A personal digital assistant PDA can be used as a medical decision support system MDSS to obtain a profile of the patients medication and to check for inappropriate drugs and drug combinations and to reduce medication errors AIM The aim of the present study was to evaluate nurses experiences of using a MDSS in a PDA with a barcode reader in order to obtain profiles of the patients medication regarding drug drug interactions therapeutic duplications and warnings for drugs unsuitable for elderly in home care METHODS The LIFe reader is a MDSS in a PDA with a barcode reader By scanning the drug packages in the patients home the LIFe reader obtained profiles of the patients medication and checked for drug drug interactions therapeutic duplications and warnings for drugs unsuitable for elderly people The LIFe reader also contained e g drug information and medical reference works Nurses n 15 used the LIFe reader for five weeks during their nursing home care practice assignment The nurses answered questionnaires about the content and functions of the LIFe reader before during and after the nursing home care practice assignment and were interviewed in focus groups Descriptive statistics were used and content analysis was applied for qualitative data RESULTS By using the LIFe reader the majority of the nurses found it easy to obtain profiles of the patients medication and check for drug drug interactions therapeutic duplications and warnings for drugs unsuitable for elderly people Most nurses regarded the LIFe reader to reduce drug related risks of falling and some thought it could reduce the drug related admissions to hospitals The scanning function was described as easy and time saving although not always possible to use The LIFe reader was regarded as a useful and user friendly MDSS but more content and functions were requested CONCLUSIONS We found that the LIFe reader has the potential to be a useful and user friendly MDSS for nurses in home care when obtaining profiles of the patients medication regarding drug drug interactions therapeutic duplications and warnings for drugs unsuitable for elderly A regular scanning of the patients drugs in their home might support nurses and general practitioners GPs in reducing the inappropriate use of drugs If the LIFe reader should be used in a larger scale among nurses more content and functions are necessary
- ItemThe use of the Personal Digital Assistant (PDA) among personnel and students in health care: a review.(2008-10-29) Lindquist, Anna M; Johansson, Pauline E; Petersson, Göran I; Saveman, Britt-Inger; Nilsson, Gunilla CBACKGROUND Health care personnel need access to updated information anywhere and at any time and a Personal Digital Assistant PDA has the potential to meet these requirements A PDA is a mobile tool which has been employed widely for various purposes in health care practice and the level of its use is expected to increase Loaded with suitable functions and software applications a PDA might qualify as the tool that personnel and students in health care need In Sweden today despite its leadership role in mobile technologies PDAs are not commonly used and there is a lack of suitable functions and software applications OBJECTIVE The aim of the present review was to obtain an overview of existing research on the use of PDAs among personnel and students in health care METHODS The literature search included original peer reviewed research articles written in English and published from 1996 to 2008 All study designs were considered for inclusion We excluded reviews and studies focusing on the use of PDAs in classroom situations From March 2006 to the last update in May 2008 we searched PubMed CINAHL Cochrane IngentaConnect and a local search engine ELIN Kalmar We conducted a content analysis using Nielsen s Model of System Acceptability as a theoretical framework in structuring and presenting the results RESULTS From the 900 references initially screened 172 articles were selected and critically assessed until 48 articles remained The majority originated in North America USA n 24 Canada n 11 The categories which emerged from our content analysis coincided to a certain extent to Nielsen s Model of System Acceptability social and practical acceptability including usefulness utility and usability subcategories such as learnability efficiency errors and satisfaction The studies showed that health care personnel and students used PDAs in patient care with varied frequency Most of the users were physicians There is some evidence that the use of a PDA in health care settings might improve decision making reduce the numbers of medical errors and enhance learning for both students and professionals but the evidence is not strong with most studies being descriptive and only 6 randomized controlled trials Several special software programs have been created and tested for PDAs and a wide range of situations for their use have been reported for different patient groups Drug and medical information were commonly accessed by PDA users and the PDA was often viewed as the preferred tool when compared to paper based documents Some users regarded the PDA easy to operate while others found it difficult in the beginning CONCLUSIONS This overview of the use of PDAs revealed a positive attitude towards the PDA which was regarded as a feasible and convenient tool The possibility of immediate access to medical information has the potential to improve patient care The PDA seems to be a valuable tool for personnel and students in health care but there is a need for further intervention studies randomized controlled trials action research and studies with various health care groups in order to identify its appropriate functions and software applications