Background

This project is a multi-year initiative between Calvin's Computer Science and Nursing departments to build an Electronic Medical Record (EMR) simulator for nursing students. The project evolved through successive teams; the Class of 2022 built the foundation, Class of 2024 improved usability and medication dispensing integration, and Class of 2025 expanded clinical assessments and PDF generation.

Recent Work

This semester, we focused on setting up development environments and improving the Pediatric Assessment module. We forked and cloned the repository, ran the application locally, and implemented improvements to the pediatric form such as reordering fields and modifying age input logic based on patient type. We also expanded the automated test suite to cover authentication, patient creation workflows, and patient list management. Additionally, we added features for sharing patients with administrators and adding individual students, and made changes based on professor feedback.

Product Success Criteria

• As we develop new features, we don't break existing ones.
• We interact with the nursing department regularly to ensure our implementation meets their needs.
• We develop a set of tests to ensure the product does not regress.

Development Process

Our team has successfully established our development workflow. We are using GitHub Flow, forking the main repositories, working on feature-specific branches, and submitting Pull Requests to the staging branch for peer review. We hold a weekly working meeting with our advisor and communicate regularly to coordinate efforts. Each member consistently dedicates 6 hours per week to the project.

Semester Work

This semester, we refined our vision and success criteria based on feedback. We implemented the Pediatric Assessment feature, established an automated testing framework using Playwright, added new features like sharing patients and adding individual students, and expanded tests for assessments.

Individual Contributions

• Alvin Waigwa
  • Set up playwright for running tests
  • Added tests for login, user authentication, and creating patients
  • Added UI for student creation
  • Added a way to share patients between administrators
• Peter Lund
  • Added pediatrics-specific assessments
  • Added revisions from nurse Sheila
  • Added tests for said assessments
  • Bugfixes

Results

Demo video preview (YouTube): Watch the preview.