title: Information Content Across Types of Nurse Cognitive Artifacts.
abstract: Acute care nurses commonly use personalized cognitive artifacts to organize information during a shift. The purpose of this content analysis is to compare information content across three formats of cognitive artifacts used by acute care nurses in a medical oncology unit: hand-made free-form, preprinted skeleton, and EHR-generated. Information contained in free-form and skeleton artifacts is more tailored to specific patient context than the NSR. Free-form and skeleton artifacts provide a space for synthesizing information to construct a "story of the patient" that is missing in the NSR. Future design of standardized handoff tools will need to take these differences into account for successful adoption by acute care nurses, including tailoring of information by patient, not just unit type, and allowing a space for nurses to construct a narrative describing the patients "story."
authors.affiliation: School of Nursing, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA.
authors.forename: Jacquelyn W
authors.initials: JW
authors.lastname: Blaz
authors.affiliation: College of Nursing, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA.
authors.forename: Alexa K
authors.initials: AK
authors.lastname: Doig
authors.affiliation: College of Nursing, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA.
authors.forename: Kristin G
authors.initials: KG
authors.lastname: Cloyes
authors.affiliation: College of Nursing, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA.
authors.forename: Nancy
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Staggers
mesh_terms: D003210:Concept Formation; D064648:Critical Care Nursing / Q000145:classification*; D057286:Electronic Health Records / Q000145:classification*; D009737:Nursing Records / Q000145:classification*; D062209:Patient Handoff / Q000145:classification*; D057184:Practice Patterns, Nurses' / Q000145:classification*; D014481:United States