title: Achieving IT-supported standardized nursing documentation through participatory design.
abstract: In the Capital Region of Denmark a full-scale pilot project on IT-supported nursing documentation is - after running for two months at one full university hospital - showing promising results. In this paper we discuss participatory design as a method to design clinical documentation templates that support guideline-based highly structured standard documentation in a large organization with many stakeholders. Applying a participatory design (PD) approach at many organizational levels has involved the stakeholders actively in the design process. Developing a set of design principles has concurrently made it possible to frame the discussions among the different stakeholders. Both PD and design principles have been instrumental in designing and implementing a set of standard templates that support the daily work and coordination between the nurses.
authors.affiliation: Department of Health Science, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. stine.loft.rasmussen@regionh.dk
authors.forename: Stine Loft
authors.initials: SL
authors.lastname: Rasmussen
authors.forename: Karen Marie
authors.initials: KM
authors.lastname: Lyng
authors.forename: Sanne
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Jensen
mesh_terms: D003718:Denmark; D004282:Documentation / Q000592:standards*; D017408:Guidelines as Topic; D016347:Medical Records Systems, Computerized / Q000592:standards*; D048108:Nursing Informatics / Q000592:standards*; D009737:Nursing Records / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D010865:Pilot Projects; D011209:Power, Psychological; D012984:Software; D012985:Software Design