Coping with different roles in intensive care nursing: design implications for digital support.

Objectives: The aim of this study is to arrive at design implications for the digital support of intensive care nurses, with a focus on supporting them in their roles as practitioners, as scholars and in their human response to their work.

Methods: Seventeen nurses from six different Dutch hospitals were interviewed using a newly developed digital prototype designed around these roles. The nurses were questioned about the suitability of four functions: two supporting the practitioner role ('web of actors' and 'timeline and notes'); one supporting the scholar role ('assessment of the patient'); and one supporting the role of human ('perception of the shift').