First Contact, First Learnings - Nursing Staff Approaching Robotics in Health Care.

Systems for service and assistance robotics become relevant in nursing care. Workshops with target user groups can support the reflection and identification of scenarios for the use of robotic systems.

Usability Assessment as a Participatory Method for Implementing Technical Innovations in Nursing Care.

For the introduction of technical nursing care innovations, a usability assessment survey is conducted by nursing staff. The questionnaire is used before and after the introduction of technical products. This poster contribution shows the latest comparison of pre- and post-surveys on selected products.

The Implementation of a Participatory Technology Development Process in a Clinical Setting.

The implementation of a participatory technology development process has been realized within the development of an anti-decubitus system. Nurses as the user group are involved in that process. Beside results, the methodical background and the specific conditions for the realization are presented and discussed.

Analysing the Selection of Appropriate Technical Solutions for Nurses in a Clinical Setting.

This work focuses the selection of technical solutions for professional nursing in a clinical setting. For a participatory approach the needs of the nursing staff are queried and analysed. Supplemented by data of patients a baseline for the selection of technical solutions is created.

[Into the Garbage? - Reasons for the Non-use of Technical Innovations in Inpatient Care]. / "In den Müll?!" ­ Ursachenforschung zur Nicht-Nutzung technischer Innovationen in der stationären Pflege.

Despite the potentially positive effects of new technologies, innovations are often not well accepted by nurses. The aim of this study was to explore the reasons for not using a distributed alarm system and to derive recommendations for future projects. Three group discussions were held with 14 nurses. Content analysis was used to explore the data. The nursing staff was not involved in the selection and introduction of the technology. A lack of knowledge or interest was not the reason for not using the system. The technology rather interrupted work processes, led to additional workload and exposure to more noise pollution for employees and patients. Technologies must fit into daily work routines. Ideally, nurses should be involved in the development, but at the least, they should be consulted at the time of introduction.

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.

Wearable Sensors for Nurses: Which Requirements Have to Be Considered?

To measure and compare the workload of nurses in a clinical setting raises up some questions. On the one hand we worked out which criteria can represent workload and how it can be measured. On the other hand we compile different requirements for wearable sensors. These requirements can be categorized in four groups: data, robustness, hygiene and usability. These results can support the selection of wearable sensors for a survey of the workload of nurses in a clinical setting.

Transferring learning to practice with e-learning--experiences in continuing education in the field of ambient assisted living.

The article describes an analysis of the use of e-learning to improve the learning transfer to practice in continuing education. Therefore an e-learning offer has been developed as a part between two attendance periods of a training course in the field of Ambient Assisted Living (AAL). All participants of the course were free to use the e-learning offer. After the end of the e-learning part we compared the e-learning users to the other participants. Using an online questionnaire we explored if there are differences in the activities in the field AAL after the training course. The results show that e-learning is beneficial especially for communication processes. Due to the fact that the possibility to talk about the learning content is an essential factor for the learning transfer, e-learning can improve the learning success.