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When You Come to a Fork in the Road, Take It: Strategy Selection in Order Entry

This study investigates how CPOE system users choose data input strategies for entering clinical orders. Complex systems often allow more than one way to complete a task. However, the appropriate entry strategy in the context of a specific clinical workflow situation may not be apparent to users. We have conducted a cognitive analysis of user interaction strategies for entering IV injection ord...

When you come to a fork in the road, take it!

You can come home again.

A piece of my mind. When you come into my room.

When you come into my hospital room, you need to know the facts of my life that there is information not contained in my hospital chart that I am 40 years married, with 4 children and 4 grandchildren that I am "genetically Lutheran"... with gut disease, like Luther himself that I am a professor that I teach teachers, priests, sisters how to nurture faith in the next generation that I love earth...

When Motherhood Doesn't Come Naturally

The wish to have a child is a deep instinctual urge; the ability to care for the child is not innate and must be nurtured. In fact, many new mothers feel torn between their desire for a child and their wish to be free of long involvements and responsibilities. Becoming a mother is a testing time for a woman. Then she takes on the truly feminine role as opposed to just being a sex partner in a r...