Participant characteristics
| Approximate size of eligible population from institution: 3000 | |
| Total no. nurse participants: 24 | |
| Sexes: 4 men and 20 women | |
| Characteristic | Frequency (n=24) |
| Age range | |
| 18–35 | 15 |
| 36–45 | 2 |
| 46–60 | 7 |
| Clinical care area | |
| Cardiac intensive care unit | 4 |
| Cardiovascular intensive care unit | 4 |
| Emergency | 3 |
| General surgery | 4 |
| General internal medicine | 2 |
| Post-anaesthesia care unit | 4 |
| Transplant unit | 3 |
| Role in hospital | |
| Full-time registered nurse | 22 |
| Part-time registered nurse | 1 |
| Casual registered nurse | 1 |
| Years of nursing experience | |
| 1–4 years | 12 |
| 5–15 years | 4 |
| >15 years | 8 |
| Current frequency of traditional infusion pump use* | |
| <once a day | 2 |
| 1–2 times a day | 2 |
| 3–5 times a day | 6 |
| >5 times a day | 14 |
↵* No nurses had previous experience with smart infusion pumps including those used in this study.