Abstract:
This study determines nurses’ attitudes toward barcoding medication administration system use.
Some of the factors underlying the successful use
of bar-coding medication administration systems that are viewed as a connotative indicator of users’
attitudes were used to gather data that describe the attitudinal basis for system adoption and use decisions in terms of subjective satisfaction. Only
67 nurses in the United States had the chance to respond to the e-questionnaire posted on the
CARING list server for the months of June and July 2007. Participants rated their satisfaction with barcoding
medication administration system use based on system functionality, usability, and its
positive/negative impact on the nursing practice.
Results showed, to some extent, positive attitude,
but the image profile draws attention to nurses’
concerns for improving certain system characteristics.
The high bar-coding medication administration
system skills revealed a more negative perception of the system by the nursing staff. The reasons underlying dissatisfaction with bar-coding
medication administration use by skillful users are an important source of knowledge that can be helpful
for system development as well as system deployment.
As a result, strengthening bar-coding medication administration system usability by magnifying its ability to eliminate medication errors and the contributing factors, maximizing system functionality
by ascertaining its power as an extra eye in the medication administration process, and impacting the clinical nursing practice positively by being helpful
to nurses, speeding up the medication administration
process, and being user-friendly can offer a congenial settings for establishing positive attitude
toward system use, which in turn leads to successful
bar-coding medication administration system use.
