Table 5.

Recommendations for improving the Large Customizable Interactive Monitor, based on observations and interviews with nurses

• Incorporate whiteboard-like features: goals of the day, parent information (e.g., phone number, preferences), parents’ questions and concerns

• Add due dates or task lists for pending tasks (e.g., dressing change)

• Provide screen saver mode for glanceable information frequently accessed by families (e.g., photos of the medical team)

• Train nurses on the purpose of the Interactive Monitor, procedures for its use, recommendations for use, and basic information (e.g., origin of data in the system)

• Eliminate functions not useful for nurses

• Update the problem list more frequently

• Customize display to accommodate needs of nurses in the unit instead of generic information

• Consolidate flowsheet, drips, labs, and urine output, on single timeline

• Show interventions on a timeline to facilitate identification of intervention-related effects and trends

• Match fluids ins and outs to the timeframe used in medical records system

• Functionality showing the interventions that happened and how they affected the vital signs on a trended scale

• Incorporate a synopsis screen