Abstract
Communication between nurses and other healthcare member is essential during the bedside medication administration stage to provide effective patient care and prevent medication errors. The nurse provides information to the physician and pharmacist when consultation regarding medication errors or concern is needed. This information is very critical as it affects the situation assessment and clinical judgment. Insufficient information can lead to failure in treatment and jeopardize patient health. The research to date has focused on improving tools for general communication between healthcare members. However, none of them have been customized to effectively fit the medication administration stage nor have considered the content of the communication. Therefore, in this paper, we propose a novel idea of customized communication that precisely applies to the medication administration stage. We developed the Medication Administration Communication (MAC) application that generates the essential content of communication between the nurse and other healthcare members. We evaluated the application by testing its usability from the nurses perspective.