The field test sought to study the efficacy of the Tracker for use with nursing students in New Zealand. This seminal research is important because the Tracker was developed in the United States using US-developed technology and standardized clinical terms. As nursing seeks to compare its clinical practices across cultural and geographic boundaries, such research is vitally important. Managing the 'Tracker' research project, lecturer Shona Wilson, envisages that the implementation that will follow the pilot will bring about positive change in the way the nursing is learned and practiced in New Zealand. By enabling theory to be accessed from the point of care the clinical experience becomes based upon evidence, whilst at the same time lecturer support and contact in the field is ensured.
Documentation becomes a living process.
Analysis of the pilot study data is in process and will be reported in detail here as it becomes available.