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I am conducting my primary research for my English class on the effects of mobile use in the nursing community. Please take a minute out of your day to answer these 5 questions. I will greatly appreciate it! Thank you!

1. Do you believe mobile use (smartphone) has increased your quality of your work as a nurse?

Strongly agree 1 2 3 4 5 Strongly Disagree

2. Do you feel the use of smartphones has enhanced the nursing community?

Strongly agree 1 2 3 4 5 Strongly Disagree

3. How often do you use your smartphone for daily assignments as a nurse?

A. Never

B. 1-2 times a day (seldom)

C. More then 5 times a day (frequent)

4. Do you feel smartphones has hindered the nursing-patient relationship?

Strongly agree 1 2 3 4 5 Strongly Disagree

5. What is the {main} purpose of your smartphone while on the job as a nurse?

A. Texting

B. Apps

C. Phone calls

D. Emails.

E. Other

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I am conducting my primary research for my English class on the effects of mobile use in the nursing community. Please take a minute out of your day to answer these 5 questions. I will greatly appreciate it! Thank you!

1. Do you believe mobile use (smartphone) has increased your quality of your work as a nurse?

Strongly agree 1 2 3 4 5 Strongly Disagree

5

2. Do you feel the use of smartphones has enhanced the nursing community?

Strongly agree 1 2 3 4 5 Strongly Disagree

3

3. How often do you use your smartphone for daily assignments as a nurse?

A. Never

B. 1-2 times a day (seldom)

C. More then 5 times a day (frequent)

A

4. Do you feel smartphones has hindered the nursing-patient relationship?

Strongly agree 1 2 3 4 5 Strongly Disagree

4

5. What is the {main} purpose of your smartphone while on the job as a nurse?

A. Texting

B. Apps

C. Phone calls

D. Emails.

E. Other

E: Look up nursing info on internet

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1. Do you believe mobile use (smartphone) has increased your quality of your work as a nurse?

Strongly agree 1 2 3 4 5 Strongly Disagree

3

2. Do you feel the use of smartphones has enhanced the nursing community?

Strongly agree 1 2 3 4 5 Strongly Disagree

3

3. How often do you use your smartphone for daily assignments as a nurse?

A. Never

B. 1-2 times a day (seldom)

C. More then 5 times a day (frequent)

C (but alternate methods are available and I could get by using it less)

4. Do you feel smartphones has hindered the nursing-patient relationship?

Strongly agree 1 2 3 4 5 Strongly Disagree

3

5. What is the {main} purpose of your smartphone while on the job as a nurse?

A. Texting

B. Apps

C. Phone calls

D. Emails.

E. Other

E (My main uses are the timer/alarm and calculator)

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Specializes in Critical care.
I am conducting my primary research for my English class on the effects of mobile use in the nursing community. Please take a minute out of your day to answer these 5 questions. I will greatly appreciate it! Thank you!

1. Do you believe mobile use (smartphone) has increased your quality of your work as a nurse?

Strongly agree 1 2 3 4 5 Strongly Disagree

3- neutral

2. Do you feel the use of smartphones has enhanced the nursing community?

Strongly agree 1 2 3 4 5 Strongly Disagree

3- neutral

3. How often do you use your smartphone for daily assignments as a nurse?

A. Never

B. 1-2 times a day (seldom)

C. More then 5 times a day (frequent)

B

4. Do you feel smartphones has hindered the nursing-patient relationship?

Strongly agree 1 2 3 4 5 Strongly Disagree

3- neutral

5. What is the {main} purpose of your smartphone while on the job as a nurse?

A. Texting

B. Apps

C. Phone calls

D. Emails.

E. Other

E- I use my timer/alarm clock and calculator. Everything else I need I have on my work computer. I use my timer to remind me to recheck a BP in an hour, to restart a heparin drip I've paused for an hour, my alarm clock to remind me to stop IVF at a certain time, etc.

Edit: what I would really love is for my facility to get rid of the crappy phones nurses carry around now (that don't charge, shut off mid-conversation, crappy reception, etc) and replace them with smartphones that have better paging capabilities and texting between nurses/providers.

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Thank you so much for the responses! I really do appreciate it. Keep em' coming!

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Specializes in ICU.

1. Do you believe mobile use (smartphone) has increased your quality of your work as a nurse?

Strongly agree 1 2 3 4 5 Strongly Disagree

3

2. Do you feel the use of smartphones has enhanced the nursing community?

Strongly agree 1 2 3 4 5 Strongly Disagree

3

3. How often do you use your smartphone for daily assignments as a nurse?

A. Never

B. 1-2 times a day (seldom)

C. More then 5 times a day (frequent)

B

4. Do you feel smartphones has hindered the nursing-patient relationship?

Strongly agree 1 2 3 4 5 Strongly Disagree

4 (mostly when Dr. WebMD gets involved :up: on the patient's end)

5. What is the {main} purpose of your smartphone while on the job as a nurse?

A. Texting

B. Apps

C. Phone calls

D. Emails.

E. Other

b- drug reference

e- time keeping- setting alarms for hourly neuro checks/etc

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Specializes in Med/Surge, Psych, LTC, Home Health.

Allright, what I'm gonna do is base my answers on my Home Health experience. :)

I am conducting my primary research for my English class on the effects of mobile use in the nursing community. Please take a minute out of your day to answer these 5 questions. I will greatly appreciate it! Thank you!

1. Do you believe mobile use (smartphone) has increased your quality of your work as a nurse?

Strongly agree 1 2 3 4 5 Strongly Disagree

2

2. Do you feel the use of smartphones has enhanced the nursing community?

Strongly agree 1 2 3 4 5 Strongly Disagree

3

3. How often do you use your smartphone for daily assignments as a nurse?

A. Never

B. 1-2 times a day (seldom)

C. More then 5 times a day (frequent)

C

4. Do you feel smartphones has hindered the nursing-patient relationship?

Strongly agree 1 2 3 4 5 Strongly Disagree

4

5. What is the {main} purpose of your smartphone while on the job as a nurse?

A. Texting

B. Apps

C. Phone calls

D. Emails.

E. Other

C

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What is a smart phone? Is that anything like my flip phone?

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Specializes in Acute Care, Rehab, Palliative.

We aren't allowed to have our phones out at work.

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1. Do you believe mobile use (smartphone) has increased your quality of your work as a nurse?

Strongly agree 1 2 3 4 5 Strongly Disagree

3

2. Do you feel the use of smartphones has enhanced the nursing community?

Strongly agree 1 2 3 4 5 Strongly Disagree

4

3. How often do you use your smartphone for daily assignments as a nurse?

A. Never

B. 1-2 times a day (seldom)

C. More then 5 times a day (frequent)

B

4. Do you feel smartphones has hindered the nursing-patient relationship?

Strongly agree 1 2 3 4 5 Strongly Disagree

4

5. What is the {main} purpose of your smartphone while on the job as a nurse?

A. Texting

B. Apps

C. Phone calls

D. Emails.

E. Other

E. Setting alarms to remind me of assessments/tasks needed during shift, and looking up research pertinent to my job.

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We aren't allowed to have our phones out at work.

Bingo. In my last floor nursing position ,use of a personal electronic device..got you walked out of the door on the spot.

If the nurse needs to research ANYTHING, it is done with the facility's approved references. Not on their DAYUMM phone.

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Home health:

0I am conducting my primary research for my English class on the effects of mobile use in the nursing community. Please take a minute out of your day to answer these 5 questions. I will greatly appreciate it! Thank you!

1. Do you believe mobile use (smartphone) has increased your quality of your work as a nurse?

Strongly agree 1 2 3 4 5 Strongly Disagree

1, more access to information and team members, wound photos from the field to the providers, reduced delays in care/treatment, Maps, improved patient access without use of home phone or the dreadful voicemail system, worse yet messages on stickies all over my desk to return calls.

2. Do you feel the use of smartphones has enhanced the nursing community?

Strongly agree 1 2 3 4 5 Strongly Disagree

1, in home health yes, but the newer nurses don't know the days of pagers and driving around to find a pay phone in the dark and/or rain. Or the multiple calls in lieu of group text.

3. How often do you use your smartphone for daily assignments as a nurse?

A. Never

B. 1-2 times a day (seldom)

C. More then 5 times a day (frequent)

C

4. Do you feel smartphones has hindered the nursing-patient relationship?

Strongly agree 1 2 3 4 5 Strongly Disagree

5, not at all. They have better access without having to interrupt me, I pick up messages at appropriate times. They see me send messages to the team for decreased delays in care "I'm sending a message to your therapist now to let them know you need xyz asap. (3 min pass) Oh, your PT just replied and will bring one this afternoon." The key is letting the patient observe the phone working for them. Versus waiting to make communications out of sight and the patient thinks all you do is ask questions, paperwork and then leave having no idea all of the contacts you make behind the scenes.

5. What is the {main} purpose of your smartphone while on the job as a nurse?

A. Texting

B. Apps

C. Phone calls

D. Emails.

E. Other

A, E (searches), C, D, B

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