Nurses' satisfaction with medication administration point-of-care technology.

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.

Duke Scholars

Author Eric Gon-Chee Poon Medicine, General Internal Medicine