Transcript Use of PDAs in Education and Practice

Use of PDAs
in
Education
UNC-CH School of Nursing
March 1, 2003
Julia Shaw-Kokot
Health Sciences Library
Mobile Technologies
 PDA =
 Palm
Personal Digital Assistant
OS (Operating System) devices
Palm
 Handspring

 Pocket
PC = Windows CE operating
system
HP
 Compaq
 Dell (Axim)
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Mobile Technologies, Cont.
 Other
Devices
Nightingale Tracker
 Smart Phones
 Blackberry
 Tablets
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 Other
terms
Handhelds
 Palmtops
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Use of PDAs in Education
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“Transforming technology”*
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Primary Schools
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Forsyth County Day School (private)
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Cherokee Central Schools
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Cherokee language
Harlem
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First K-12 school in the country to require for 1st graders
Asthma rates
University of South Dakota
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*Pen Computing Magazine. Nov. 2001, 60-64.
Nursing Schools
 University
of Virginia
Acute and primary care nurse practitioner
programs
 Pharmacology
 Arlene Keeling and others
 “… if nursing schools continued in their use of
the paper bound reference materials they
would be graduating nurses with equally
outdated and obsolete information and skills.”
Rnpalm
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Nursing Schools, Cont.
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Columbia University
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Entry-To-Practice students
Informatics competencies
Sarah Cook and others
“…document a select set of data elements
sensitive to nursing care for all patient encounters
in order to facilitate building evidence from
practice.” Rnpalm
Nursing Schools, Cont.
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UNC-Chapel Hill
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14 Month Second Degree Program
Judy Miller and others
“Students were able to look up drug information on
the spot. One student was able to detect an entire
list of incompatible medications, which were
prescribed for her patient! Diagnosis information
was available and students took advantage of the
opportunities to look up the information in the
PDA’s on the clinical site.”
Implementing a Clinical PDA Program for Nursing
Students
Educational Uses
 Drug
information
 Calculations
 Student tracking
 Dictionaries (Medical Spanish)
 Reference Resources
Educational Uses, Cont.
 Links
between
 Course
content
 Evaluations
 Clinical logs
 pdaED.com
 Teacher’s
Pet
Practice: Visiting Nurses
 Visiting
Nurses Association Home
Health Systems in Santa Ana, Calif.
Improved level of care
 Decreased paperwork by up to 50%
(now 1-11/2 hours vs. 3-4 hours per shift)
 40% increase in employment applications
 Bedside access to patient medication
information
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Healthcare Systems
 Moses
Cone Hospital
5 hospitals
 100+ Physicians
 15 Pharmacists
 The Rise of Palmtop Technology in
Medicine Part 1
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Drug Information Resources
 ePocrate
 MobilMicromedex
 Lexidrugs
 Lippincott’s
Nursing Drug Guide
Calculations
 MedCalc
 IVRate
Calc
 PregCalc Professional
Notes and Documentation
 CareTracker
(ADL)
Web demo
www.resourcesystem.com/new/Ctdemp2.html
 Patient
Keeper
 RN Patient Keeper (MAC)
 Patient Tracker
Reference Sources
 Merck
Manual
 5Minute Clinical Consult
 Skyscape
 Advanced
system
Reference and Transaction
Catch?
 Translation
software examples
 Avantgo
 Backup
Buddy
 Install Buddy
 iSilo
 InstallBuddy
 JFile
Issues
 Security
(Health Insurance Portability
and Accountability Act of 1996 –HIPPA)
 Wireless
 Confidentiality
 Standards
 Human/technology
interface
Information on PDAs
 PDACortex
http://www.pdacortex.com/
 PDA in Nursing Listserv
http://www.pdacortex.com/nursing_pdas
_listserv.htm
 Nursing Library and Information
Resources Yale University PDA Guide
http://info.med.yale.edu/library/nursing/reference/pda.html
PDAs in Nursing Listserv
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Check out ePocrates (website is www.ePoctates.com) I use it
all the time on my Palm IIIC you can update it anytime
hotsinc with your computer which I find helps keep me
informed of changes.
Question:
> Any advice on programs that I will find helpful for my Palm
III c? I am an FNP student, who wants to use the Palm in a
family practice setting to help me look up appropriate meds,
check contraindications, and dosages.
Where do you get the Davis Drug Guide?? I am a
nursing student who will be starting clinicals in the
spring, and one of our required texts is the Davis
Drug Guide. So I figured that might be a viable
option instead of getting the book and then getting a
new book in a year or so, this way it will update as
new information comes out.
Crystal Ball
 Transitional
 Next
Technology
= wearable
Reference
 Huffstutler,
S., Wyatt, T.H., & Wright,
C.P. (2002). The use of handheld
technology in nursing education. Nurse
Educator, 27(6), 271-5.