Nurses' satisfaction with medication administration point-of-care technology.
Efforts to promote safe care prompted the development point-of-care technology, but successful adoption requires acceptance by nursing staff. To assess the satisfaction of nurses who use point-of-care technology that integrates nurse scanning of bar-coded medications with the patient's electronic medication administration record, the authors examined nurses' satisfaction with barcode/electronic medication administration record before and after introduction in an academic medical center.
Hurley
Ann C
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Center for Nursing Excellence, Division of General Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA. Ahurley@partners.org
Bane
Anne
A
Fotakis
Sofronia
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Duffy
Mary E
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Sevigny
Amanda
A
Poon
Eric G
EG
Gandhi
Tejal K
TK
D000046:Academic Medical Centers; D000328:Adult; D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D001292:Attitude to Computers; D016303:Clinical Pharmacy Information Systems; D017598:Efficiency, Organizational; D001330:Electronic Data Processing; D005260:Female; D019538:Health Care Surveys; D006801:Humans; D007588:Job Satisfaction; D008297:Male; D008510:Medication Systems, Hospital; D009741:Nursing Staff, Hospital / Q000523:psychology*; D019095:Point-of-Care Systems; D017751:Safety Management; D014481:United States; D014584:User-Computer Interface