Understanding Nurses' Perception Regarding the Use of NFC Application During Medication Administration

Abstract

Near Field Communication is an effective short-range wireless technology that has been used to securely identify objects. While many healthcare domains have benefited from the use of NFC, it currently is in limited use in medication administration in hospitals. The long-term objectives of this research are to ease and enhance the process of medication administration through designing an NFC-based framework for checking the five rights of medication administration. Before we can design such a framework, we must first understand the nurses' perception regarding the use of the NFC technology during the medication administration process. Second, we must gather recommendations that can be used as guidelines to design the framework. Therefore, in this paper we present a usability testing of a small sample of the framework to help reach these objectives.