Background
ADVERSE EFFECTS
In older clients’ home care, medication management has a key role in the daily tasks of home care professionals [In home care, medication management is a process referring to the ordering, dispensing, reconstitution, administration, and monitoring of the effects of medications and medication education [During daily home visits, home care professionals are obliged to monitor the effects of medications by following up the health condition of older home care clients using different measurement methods such as the measurement of blood pressure. In addition, home care clients should be asked about the effects and adverse effects of medication [Nurses’ use of working time in hospitals has been studied from the viewpoint of the use of the robots delivering nursing care, such as auto-tracking systems to identify patients and robots taking care of patients’ hygiene. These studies found that the use of robots for different nursing treatments decreased the nurses’ use of working time required per patient when compared to manual care realized by the nurses [There is a lack of studies related to home care professionals’ use of working time in older people’s home care, and especially in medication management. The use of robots for medication management by older people’s home care has been studied in the past, but these studies have mostly focused on testing different robots from the technical point of view [Our study aimed to examine the effect of using a robot for medication management on home care professionals’ use of working time. The research hypothesis was that using a robot for medication management would decrease the professionals’ use of working time in home care.