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Ann C Hurley1, Anne Bane, Sofronia Fotakis
1Center for Nursing Excellence, Division of General Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA. Ahurley@partners.org
Abstract:
Efforts to promote safe care prompted the development point-of-care technology, but successful adoption requires acceptance by nursing staff. To assess the satisfaction of nurses who use point-of-care technology that integrates nurse scanning of bar-coded medications with the patient's electronic medication administration record, the authors examined nurses' satisfaction with barcode/electronic medication administration record before and after introduction in an academic medical center.
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