The Hidden Lives of Nurses' Cognitive Artifacts.
Standardizing nursing handoffs at shift change is recommended to improve communication, with electronic tools as the primary approach. However, nurses continue to rely on personally created paper-based cognitive artifacts - their "paper brains" - to support handoffs, indicating a deficiency in available electronic versions.
Author(s): Blaz, Jacquelyn W, Doig, Alexa K, Cloyes, Kristin G, Staggers, Nancy
DOI: 10.4338/ACI-2016-01-RA-0007