The Hidden Lives of Nurses' Cognitive Artifacts

Conclusions: The“hidden lives“– the life cycle and evolution– of paper brains have implications for the design of successful electronic tools to support nursing practice, including handoff. Nurses’ paper brains provide cognitive support beyond the context of handoff. Information retrieval during handoff is undoubtedly an important function of nurses’ paper brains, but tools designed to standardize handoff communication without accounting for cognitive needs during all phases of the paper brain life cycle or the ability to evolve with changes to those cognitive needs will be underutilized....
Source: Applied Clinical Informatics - Category: Information Technology Source Type: research