Mapping Medication Management Park receives Dean’s Research Award
Suhyun Park, PhD, will use a new Dean’s Research Award to explore how nurses interact with electronic health records (EHRs) as they manage medication administration.
Park received the $5,000 award for her study “Evidence-based definition of optimal processes of nurses’ medication management workflow.”
“Nurse-EHR interaction can be used as a proxy to track nurses’ activities, and we can use this information to objectively map the workflow of nurse medication management tasks,” said Park, an assistant professor at Cizik School of Nursing at UTHealth Houston.
Park will first interview clinical nurses to construct a conceptual process map, then validate the workflow through process mining using nurses’ real-time activity data logged in the EHR from UT Physicians. This will be followed by co-design workshops with clinical nurses. She will work with co-investigator Deevakar Rogith, PhD, MBBS, an assistant professor at McWilliams School of Biomedical Informatics at UTHealth Houston.
“Traditional linear models oversimplify the complex, high-risk nature of medication management,” Park said. “This project seeks to uncover real-world workflows and inform future interventions to enhance medication safety.”
