1. Case Study Presentation The Use of Tablets in Nursing Practice
Thomas Kane
Ferris State University
Nursing 641

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Objectives
Review of mobile devices for use by nurses
Discuss the history of use of tablets by nurses
Current state of use of tablets, pros and cons
Recommendation of applications for nursing use

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Setting
The setting for this device review is the acute care hospital.
The nursing practice venue is Medical-Surgical unit

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Tablets have traditionally not been the primary device used by nursing. The reasons include.
Wide spread use of PC’s at the patient bedside (Mace 2013)
Tablet Operating Systems (OS) were incompatible with the applications used

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Reason for tablet non use (continued)
Inability to effectively sanitize the tablet between patients
Until recently tablet use was rudimentary and not intuitive (Millard 2014)

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Acceptance of the use of tablets
Change in physical structure allowing sanitizing between patients
Increasing availability of OS that function with clinical applications and improvements in wireless networks
Widespread use of tablets by the public due to improved user friendliness (Millard 2014)

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Examples of tablets used in health care
Apple iPad
Samsung Galaxy
Microsoft Surface

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Clinical reasons for the use of tablets
“Clinicians utilizing mobile technology such as tablets make healthcare decisions more rapidly and with fewer errors” (Airth- Kindree, 2014).
Multiple clinical applications on a device readily available at the point of care

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Clinical reasons for the use of tablets
Supports a mobile workforce improving workforce efficiency
Reduced time away from the patient in comparison to a fixed work station (Millard 2014)
Improved data sharing with other systems and applications

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“As data flows in the EMR is going to be a feeder system…. The research and patient care will be done with higher level applications” (Weber, R. as quoted by Millard 2014 p.6)

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Applications
Dashboard for nursing performance and meaningful use
Combination applications for quick reference tools (Airth-Kindree 2014)
Nursing consult or procedure applications

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Use of electronic applications decreases time spend away from the patient Heslop and Raikundalia found that prior to electronic applications there was one hour of paper work for each hour of patient care. (Heslop, 2011)

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The use of tablets creates a mobile workforce Allows for reference application use at the bedside Decreases time away from the patient due to point of care availability of applications

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Recommended applications
A dashboard application such as RAPID or Indigo by MEDI-SOLV to inform the nurse of performance related to Meaningful Use and Core Measures
Combination application such as Up To Date to provide evidence based resource for patient care
A nursing consulting application such as Mosby's Nursing Consult for rapid access to nursing procedure and process information.

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References
Millard, M., (2014, October). Is the post-EHR era upon us?. Health Care IT News, 11(10), pp.4-6
Mace, S., (2013, January-February). Tablets and the influence of connective technology. Health Leaders Magazine, p.10
Airth-Kindree, N., Vandenbark, T., (2014 July/August). Mobile Applications in nursing Education and Practice. Nurse Educator, 39(4) pp
Heslop, L., Raikunda, G., (2011) Enhancing Clinical Nurse Workflow through Redesign of Networked Wireless Laptop Computers, electronic Journal of Health informatics 6(3),1-8