Abstract
The growing prevalence of healthcare informatics has created many potential advantages in healthcare. Such an application is to set up an easy and useful nursing scheduling support system to release the current exhausting manual scheduling burdens. The objective of this study was to evaluate the performances and nurses' acceptance of an automatic scheduling support system which was developed by nurses with the end user computing strategy.
The system was installed in a medical center in March, 2005 and its performances from March to August were examined. 33 nurse subjects were invited to evaluate their acceptance of system. The content validity of questionnaire was examined by experts and the reliability Cronbach's α ranged from 0.95-0.96. 31 copies of questionnaire were successfully collected.
The results indicated the nurses' shift requests were raised and the system could successfully, automatically determined 95.3% of monthly shifts for average. The system averagely took 1-2 minutes to complete a monthly shift plan but another 30-40 minutes were needed to modify some inappropriate shift assignments. Those were significantly lowered than what were done manually. Moreover, the average rate for nurses to agree and more than agree with that the system was easy to use as well as useful in many perspectives was 96.5% and 91.9%.
The results supported the effectiveness of the automatic scheduling system developed by ourselves. The system will be modified to fit into other nursing units.
The system was installed in a medical center in March, 2005 and its performances from March to August were examined. 33 nurse subjects were invited to evaluate their acceptance of system. The content validity of questionnaire was examined by experts and the reliability Cronbach's α ranged from 0.95-0.96. 31 copies of questionnaire were successfully collected.
The results indicated the nurses' shift requests were raised and the system could successfully, automatically determined 95.3% of monthly shifts for average. The system averagely took 1-2 minutes to complete a monthly shift plan but another 30-40 minutes were needed to modify some inappropriate shift assignments. Those were significantly lowered than what were done manually. Moreover, the average rate for nurses to agree and more than agree with that the system was easy to use as well as useful in many perspectives was 96.5% and 91.9%.
The results supported the effectiveness of the automatic scheduling system developed by ourselves. The system will be modified to fit into other nursing units.
| Translated title of the contribution | Evaluating a Nurse Self-developed Automatic Scheduling Support System |
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| Original language | Chinese (Traditional) |
| Pages (from-to) | 71-80 |
| Journal | 醫療資訊雜誌 |
| Volume | 15 |
| Issue number | 4 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Dec 2006 |