1. Exploring Nursing Work in the Emergency Department
Presented by: Steven Nguyen
Mentor: Yunan Chen

2. Background Medical Informatics Paper Records vs. Electronic Records
Information & Computer Science
Healthcare
Paper Records vs. Electronic Records
Pros & Cons

3. My Role Observe and track Nurse work
Long Beach Memorial Medical Center
As a hypothetical, if I find that the nurses spend 90% of their time at the computers, then it would imply that the computers are using up too much of the nurses’ time, as patient care time is arguably more important than 10% or under, for example. It is difficult to predict what interesting implications may come from looking at my data, but I am hoping to find some interesting things about the link between nurse work and computer use.

4. Project Scope Long Beach Memorial Medical Center Emergency Department
Nurses

5. Methodology Two phases Shadowing, Observation, Questioning
1) Acquaintance with ED
2) Task tracking
Shadowing, Observation, Questioning

6. Typical ED Walkthrough

7. Register Nurse Work

8. Task Tracking

9. Current & Future Plans Upcoming weeks Future Analyze data
Shadow doctors

10. Thank you