College of Nursing
HANDS Research Program (Gail Keenan)
Led by Gail Keenan · Family, Community and Health Systems Science
What we study
The Keenan Lab develops and refines HANDS, a system for collecting standardized nursing data to improve care planning, communication, and outcomes. The lab focuses on automating clinical data collection and analyzing it for decision support.
What working here is like
- Clinical
- Computational
- Coding helps
- Project
- 1
- Papers
- 5
Current projects
HANDS Research Project
Refining a web-based software method for nurses to document patient care and communicate with interdisciplinary teams.
Summaries are written by AI in plain language from public symposium abstracts and may be imperfect.
Recent papers, explained
- Translation, Cultural Adaptation, and Validation of A Nursing Process Mobile Application for Use in the United States
2026 · CIN Computers Informatics Nursing
Adapts a nursing app for US students, ensuring it fits cultural and educational needs.
- A New Methodological Approach to Cultural Adaptation of a Mobile Application for Teaching the Nursing Process
2025 · CIN Computers Informatics Nursing
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- Charting the path forward: Nursing perspectives on documentation and change
2025 · Nursing Outlook
- Making nursing visible: AI-assisted standardization of electronic health record interventions using generative pre-trained transformer models and retrieval-augmented generation process
2025 · Nursing Outlook
- Creating Perinatal Nursing Care Plans Using ChatGPT
2024 · The Journal of Perinatal & Neonatal Nursing
Uses AI to help nurses create care plans for pregnant and postpartum patients.
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