UX/UI · Healthcare · Field Operations · Mobile
NRDB: A Mobile Flow for Home-Visit Nurses
An app that replaces a spreadsheet and a stack of paper with one flow: see the next scheduled visit, log vitals and care tasks on the patient, then move to the next stop.
- Role
- UX Designer
- Tools
- Adobe XD
- Platform
- Mobile
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01 — Overview
A day's route, a patient's vitals, one screen at a time
NRDB is a mobile app for nurses who visit patients at home. It shows the next scheduled visit, gives them a place to record vitals and complete care tasks on that patient, and hands them off to the next stop on their route.
Before this, nurses worked from a long spreadsheet and moved between separate papers to update each patient's care tasks. My scope covered the schedule, the vitals and care task capture, and the handoff to the next patient.
Designed for
Representative user profile
Field nurse
Home-visit care, several patients a day
Goal — log a visit's vitals and care tasks quickly, then get to the next patient.
Frustration — a spreadsheet for the schedule and separate paper forms for every patient's care tasks.
02 — Challenge
Replace a spreadsheet and a stack of paper with one flow
Schedule
The day's visits lived in a spreadsheet, disconnected from anything a nurse did on-site.
Vitals & tasks
Every patient had a separate paper form for vitals and care tasks, filled out by hand.
Handoff
Finishing one visit and finding the next was a manual look-up, not a next step.
Context
All of this happens standing in a patient's home or between stops, not at a desk.
03 — Research & insights
What the paper trail was costing nurses
- 01
The schedule and the care record were two different objects, so nurses cross-referenced a spreadsheet against a paper form for every visit.
- 02
Vitals and care tasks needed to be entered fast, standing up, often one-handed.
- 03
Getting to the next patient was left to memory or a separate maps app, with nothing carrying the address over.
- 04
Paper forms had no structure — two nurses could record the same care task two different ways.
"I want to finish with one patient and know exactly where I'm going next."
04 — Flow
One flow, from the schedule to the next address
Schedule
Today's visits, in order, with the next one first
Arrive
Open the patient record for that visit
Record
Vitals and care tasks logged against the patient
Complete
Visit marked done, schedule updates
Navigate
One tap opens Google Maps to the next patient
05 — Final interface
How the flow is structured
06 — Outcome
What changed for nurses on the road
What worked
The schedule and the patient record became one object instead of two, and the direct handoff to maps meant a finished visit led straight to the next one.
What I would change
Vitals and care task entry still asks for a fair amount of typing on a moving day. A future pass would push more of that toward structured taps and defaults.