Nursing in the New Millenium: Touching Patients' Lives Through Computers (original) (raw)

Factors Affecting Nurses' Attitudes Toward Computers in Healthcare

CIN: Computers, Informatics, Nursing, 2011

Adapting to technological innovations represents a key process for improving and restructuring healthcare. Technological developments have, in addition to many existing assignments, exposed nursing personnel to new tasks and responsibilities in many areas of practice including homecare, clinic settings, schools, and hospitals. 1-4 Although the introduction of computers, representing a significant facet of technologic developments, to both daily and professional lives of nurses has been rapid, the literature indicates a resistance by nurses to use of computers in healthcare. Nurses argue that use of computers in healthcare is not in accordance with holistic and humanistic approaches, which represent the main philosophy of nursing, and that computers are complex devices to work with, to justify their resistance to use computers in healthcare. 5-12 However, it is being increasingly acknowledged in recent years that technology and therefore computerization will contribute to the decision-making capabilities and skills of nurses, improve the quality of healthcare, and reduce the costs of services. 5,13 Because of the accelerated development of technology, hospitals have expanded the use of computers to many areas. Initially, areas such as human resources, financial, and logistics systems were computerized. Later on, these systems expanded to include clinical communications and storage of patients' historical data, such as physicians' orders, laboratory results, and computerized nursing care plans. The growth of hospital information systems has also had significant impacts on nursing practice. Integration of computers in the work performed by nurses is an innovation that requires nurses to change their working methods and even their function in the department. The successful implementation of computer systems in nursing practice is likely to be directly related to users' attitudes toward computerization. Thus, the attitudes nurses have toward the use of computers are very important, and use of computers in healthcare requires that objective and comparative information on how nurses view the use of computers and the factors affecting these attitudes is available. If

The Transforming Effect of Handheld Computers on Nursing Practice

Nursing Administration Quarterly, 2005

Handheld computers have the power to transform nursing care. The roots of this power are the shift to decentralization of communication, electronic health records, and nurses' greater need for information at the point of care. This article discusses the effects of handheld resources, calculators, databases, electronic health records, and communication devices on nursing practice. The US government has articulated the necessity of implementing the use of handheld computers in healthcare. Nurse administrators need to encourage and promote the diffusion of this technology, which can reduce costs and improve care.

Leveraging digital technology in nursing

Health Emergency and Disaster Nursing

The expansion of nurse-led digital technology in acute and critical care hospital units holds promising potential for improving the quality and efficiency of patient care. Recognizing the need to adapt traditional models of care to accommodate a growing shortage of nurses and higher acuity patients, this article outlines three virtual nursing initiatives that provide real-time support to bedside caregivers and enhance patient safety. A new hybrid model of nursing care, which integrates virtual intensive care nursing, acute care telenursing, and remote telesitting services into clinical nursing workflow, maximizes the size and skill mix of both the remote and bedside nursing teams. Thoughtful stakeholder planning and a collaborative technology integration process has also enhanced sustainability efforts. In this way, new virtual nursing services complement and extend the impact of the primary clinical nursing team, offering tools and structural support that streamlines care delivery processes and eases workload burden without sacrificing the quality of patient care.

Perception of Information Technology in the Care Process From The Point of View of Nurses . * 1

2017

The continuous use of the computer and new information technologies is becoming indispensable in the hospital, which can be a great challenge for nursing, since it is necessary to learn new skills for the provision of care. The present study is a quantitative, descriptive and cross sectional approach, based on data analysis of 30 questionnaires applied to employees of several sectors of a large health institution located in Vale do Paraíba, with the purpose of characterizing the socio demographic profile of professionals Of nursing of a specific hospital institution, to identify the use of the computer in the routine of the hospital nursing practice and to evaluate the impact of the use of the computer on patient / client care by the nurse. In this work, the recommendations of Resolution No. 466/12 of the National Health Council and approval of the Research Ethics Committee of Teresa D'Ávila University Center, no 2,024,357 were followed. It was observed that among the employees ...

Nursing functions and computer support

Journal of Medical Systems, 1985

Computer-based information system (CBtS) support for nursing functions has typically been a by-product of some other automation effort such as communication, admission-dischargetransfer, or finance. Support specifically for nurses has been narrow in scope and little used, in spite of ongoing discussion about its need. However, the s#uation seems to be improving of late. But is the situation really improving? Or, are we merely witnessing unproductive machinations? Herein, we discuss three basic conditions that have slowed NIS evolution. Following that, however, we offer some evidence of real progress in computer-based support for nursing functions.

Digitalization and new technologies in care – concepts and potentials for nursing care provision

Digitalisierung der Pflege

Digitalization and new technologies in care-concepts and potentials for nursing care provision Background In Germany,wehaveahigh demand for nursing care on the one hand and,onthe other hand ahuge shortageofnurses. For the area of long-termcare, it is forecast that there will be as hortageo fn ursing staff of around 307,000 individuals by 2035. This results in asupply gap of about 500,000 nurses in the overall nursing care sector (Radke 2020). Schwinger et al. (2019) projectthat if the trend for the need of nursing care is extrapolated, it will increase from 590,000 individuals in 2019 to 720,000 by 2030 and to 980,000 individuals employed in nursing care by 2060. In relativet erms, this represents an increase of 67%. Differentiated into inpatientand outpatient care, these projections meanthat about 100,000 more positions will be needed in inpatient long-term care alone, and about 700,000 individuals should be employed in care by 2060, to meet the demand. In ambulatory care, an increase in needed staff of 220,000 is projected by 2030 (Schwinger et al. 2019). In these projections, however, it must be taken into account that as hortage of nurses can also be observed in hospitalsa nd rehabilitation clinics. Against this background, the hope is that new technology will, and can, support nurses in their work. To date, however, there has been little research conducted on required competencies for nurses to work appropriately with new technologies in nursing (Maalouf et al. 2018). Professional nursing will haveto meet new requirements in terms of professional competencies, as they will not only havetoidentify nursing needs, but will also havetobeable to plan, and use, the new technologies in line with the needs of the person in need of care, so that high-quality health and nursing care can be provided. The unanswered questions about new technologies in nursing care include: Why do we need them? To compensatefor nursing staff shortages and/or to optimize nursingprocesses? To support and/or facilitate nursing work?T osupport the autonomy, independence and self-determination of people in need of care?F urther questions are: What new technologies do we need?What does the human-technology interaction look Open-Access-Publikation im Sinne der CC-Lizenz BY 4.0