Bring Your Own Device and Nurse Executives Decision Making: A Qualitative Description

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dc.contributor.authorMartinez, Karen
dc.contributor.supervisorCourtney, Karen L.
dc.date.accessioned2014-12-12T19:10:10Z
dc.date.available2014-12-12T19:10:10Z
dc.date.copyright2014en_US
dc.date.issued2014-12-12
dc.degree.departmentSchool of Health Information Science
dc.degree.levelMaster of Science M.Sc.en_US
dc.description.abstractBring Your Own Device (BYOD) phenomenon is important in the healthcare environment because this growing trend is totally changing the workplace landscape in healthcare organizations, such as British Columbia (BC). The organizations need to be proactive and aware of this trend to decide the best way to approach this phenomenon. Currently, there is little current research that exists in Canada in context to provide a distinct understanding of the complexities and difficulties unique to this phenomenon within the nursing practice. In order to develop an understanding of BYOD in healthcare workplace, a perspective was needed of those experiencing the phenomenon of interest. The premise of this research was to explore the BYOD phenomenon from the nursing perspective. This study focused on the experiences, views, and perceptions of nurse executives/managers about how they make decisions regarding use of personal handheld devices in the workplace. A qualitative description was undertaken and the collection of data involved telephone interviews in which participants were asked to reflect on their views and/or experiences regarding BYOD in the workplace. During the literature research process, the researcher discovered that there were similar research studies previously done in the early 2000s that found early healthcare organizational concerns with the use of personal digital assistant devices (PDA) in the clinical setting. In this study, four major themes emerged that provided an insights as to how nurse NEx/M make decisions regarding BYOD. The four major themes included: 1) management perspective, 2) opportunities, 3) disadvantages, and 4) solutions. The results of this study will aid in bringing greater awareness of BYOD to other executives and managers in nursing and should also provide information to the leaders throughout the healthcare organizations and health IT department.en_US
dc.description.scholarlevelGraduateen_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1828/5755
dc.languageEnglisheng
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.rights.tempAvailable to the World Wide Weben_US
dc.subjectBYODen_US
dc.subjectpersonal handheld deviceen_US
dc.subjectnursing managersen_US
dc.subjectpolicyen_US
dc.subjectPDAen_US
dc.subjectPersonal digital assistanten_US
dc.subjectsmartphonesen_US
dc.subjecttabletsen_US
dc.subjectnursing practiceen_US
dc.titleBring Your Own Device and Nurse Executives Decision Making: A Qualitative Descriptionen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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