Bring 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. / Graduate
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:uvic.ca/oai:dspace.library.uvic.ca:1828/5755 |
| Date | 12 December 2014 |
| Creators | Martinez, Karen |
| Contributors | Courtney, Karen L. |
| Source Sets | University of Victoria |
| Language | English, English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis |
| Rights | Available to the World Wide Web |
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