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Abstract
Aim: To assess the effectiveness of using smart glasses to facilitate communication among nurses inside and outside the emergency department.
Design: Complementary mixed-methods study with a one-group pretest-posttest design.
Methods: Thirty emergency nurses participated in surveys on demographics, digital literacy, and communication clarity before and after using smart glasses. Qualitative interviews explored user experiences.
Results: Smart glasses improved communication clarity. No significant correlation was found between demographics or clinical experience and communication clarity. Qualitative analysis identified five facilitating factors-reduced nursing workload, enhanced patient care, improved efficiency, reliable support, and professional feel-and five barriers-user interface issues, surveillance burden, communication errors, technology-integration limitations, and ethical/patient privacy concerns.
Conclusion: Smart glasses improved communication in emergency isolation rooms, potentially enhancing patient safety and reducing treatment delays. Addressing usability and ethical concerns is key for successful integration.
Implications for the profession and/or patient care: Smart glasses offer significant potential to enhance communication. To maximise their benefits, it is crucial to address challenges such as the added stress on novice nurses, potential increases in workload, and ethical concerns regarding patient privacy. Providing comprehensive training and refining the technology will help to reduce user burden and ensure robust data security, ultimately improving patient care and supporting nursing staff in high-stress environments.
Impact: Smart glasses can improve communication among emergency nurses, especially in isolation rooms, by reducing treatment delays and enhancing collaboration, thus improving patient safety.
Reporting method: TREND (Nonrandomised evaluations of behavioural and public health interventions).
Patient or public contribution: Emergency nurses' feedback was integral to evaluating the usability and effectiveness of smart glasses.
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The Journal of Clinical Nursing (JCN) is an international, peer reviewed, scientific journal that seeks to promote the development and exchange of knowledge that is directly relevant to all spheres of nursing practice. The primary aim is to promote a high standard of clinically related scholarship which advances and supports the practice and discipline of nursing. The Journal also aims to promote the international exchange of ideas and experience that draws from the different cultures in which practice takes place. Further, JCN seeks to enrich insight into clinical need and the implications for nursing intervention and models of service delivery. Emphasis is placed on promoting critical debate on the art and science of nursing practice.
JCN is essential reading for anyone involved in nursing practice, whether clinicians, researchers, educators, managers, policy makers, or students. The development of clinical practice and the changing patterns of inter-professional working are also central to JCN''s scope of interest. Contributions are welcomed from other health professionals on issues that have a direct impact on nursing practice.
We publish high quality papers from across the methodological spectrum that make an important and novel contribution to the field of clinical nursing (regardless of where care is provided), and which demonstrate clinical application and international relevance.
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