How to Decide upon Nursing Technologies - A Participation-Based Approach.

This study describes an approach to support decisions on the acquisition of innovative nursing technologies. The approach focusses a participatory design that involves nursing staff from the beginning of the process and aims at achieving positive results regarding identification with the decision of implementation and use of technologies by nursing staff.

[Providing knowledge and support for caring relatives with the smartphone - the MoCaB project].

Providing knowledge and support for caring relatives with the smartphone - the MoCaB project Caring relatives often have a lack of knowledge of illness and care options. Surveys, as part of the MoCaB (Mobile Care Backup) project, showed that this is often experienced as a burden. The aim is to support caring relatives by increasing their knowledge.

Use and Acceptance of Mobile Technology by Hospital Nurses in Germany.

Introduction: The aim of the study was to measure and describe user behavior, information and communication technology (ICT) competence and technology acceptance of hospital nurses.

Methods: 36 nurses received for six weeks a mobile phone or a tablet pc with mobile application and answered one questionnaire before and after the six weeks.

Results: The participating nurses show a high technology acceptance and private daily use of technologies.

Smart Glasses in Nursing Training - Redundant Gadget or Precious Tool? A Pilot Study.

Introduction: Heavy workloads in nursing care and high employee turnover call for efficient methods to support on-the-job training. Within the Witra Care project - aiming to develop mobile technologies to support knowledge transfer between experienced and inexperienced nurses - the objective was to investigate the feasibility and perceived usefulness of advanced smart glasses for an exemplary, specific activity in nursing training - preparation of a surgical instrument table in an operating room.

Methods: Four trainee nurses performed different tasks using speech-command operated smart glasses within an operating room setting and were asked for their expectations towards this technology, their experiences and perceptions.

Knowledge Transfer in Health Care Through Digitally Collecting Learning Experiences - Results of Witra Care.

Introduction: The goal of the project Witra Care was to investigate how far the use of mobile technology is suitable to collect experience-based knowledge of nurses.

Methods: Nine new employees and seven experienced nurses received for six weeks a mobile phone or a tablet pc with a mobile application that allowed them to collect learning object as pictures, videos, audio files or notes.

Results: In Witra Care the nurses created 303 learning objects.

Developing a mobile application for recording learning experiences in nursing practice.

Objective: In complex clinical on-the-job training a seamless and target-oriented incorporation is crucial to assure a good medical care. The reliable transmission of specific and relevant facts, besides education knowledge, is a key factor to ensure sustainable quality in care processes.

Materials And Methods: We present the clinical field study WITRA care.

Usage of multilingual mobile translation applications in clinical settings.

Background: Communication between patients and medical staff can be challenging if both parties have different cultural and linguistic backgrounds. Specialized applications can potentially alleviate these problems and significantly contribute to an effective, improved care process when foreign language patients are involved.

Objective: The objective for this paper was to discuss the experiences gained from a study carried out at the Hannover Medical School regarding the use of a mobile translation application in hospital wards.