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The Impact of Emerging Technology on Nursing Care

While myriad forces are changing the face of contemporary healthcare, one could argue that nothing will change the way nursing is practiced more than current advances in technology. Indeed, technology is changing the world at warp speed and nowhere is this more evident than in healthcare settings. This article identifies seven emerging technologies that will change the practice of nursing; three skill sets nurses will need to develop to acquire, use, and integrate these emerging technologies; and four challenges nurse leaders will face in integrating this new technology.Technology is changing the world at warp speed and nowhere is this more evident than in healthcare settings. While myriad forces are changing the face of contemporary healthcare, one could argue that nothing will change the way nursing is practiced more than current advances in technology. Technology is changing the world at warp speed and nowhere is this more evident than in healthcare settings. This article identifies seven emerging technologies that will change the practice of nursing; three skill sets nurses will need to develop to acquire, use, and integrate these emerging technologies; and four challenges nurse leaders will face in integrating this new technology.

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

Enabling technologies daily nursing work and its practical implications

Independent Journal of Management & Production, 2022

In the health area, technological and scientific advances are paramount for the development of innovative technologies used in the treatment of diseases. Likewise, several categories of technologies are also useful in numerous activities for organizational management, resources management (medicines, data and information sets and people, among other) in the health field. Technologies are essential in work environments, but they also have implications, directly, for professionals who handle and operate them. Therefore, this study aims to identify the main technologies used by nursing professionals (nurses and technicians in nursing) and their impacts on work. Results were obtained through literature review, prioritizing case studies. Was carried out in at Scopus, PubMed, Web of Science, Emerald and Science Direct. Two analyses were conducted, bibliometrics, in order to explore the main data of the articles (years of publications, scientific journals and more frequent terms) and quali...

Enabling technologies promise to revitalize the role of nursing in an era of patient safety

International Journal of Medical Informatics, 2003

The application of information technology (IT) in health care has the potential to transform the delivery of care, as well as the health care work environment, by streamlining processes, making procedures more accurate and efficient, and reducing the risk of human error. For nurses, a major aspect of this transformation is the refocusing of their work on direct patient care and away from being a conduit of information and communication among departments. Several of the technologies discussed, such as physician order entry and bar code technology, have existed for years as standalone systems. Many others are just being developed and are being integrated into complex clinical information systems (CISs) with clinical decision support at their core. While early evaluation of these systems shows positive outcome measurements, financial, technical, and organizational hurdles to widespread implementation still remain. One major issue is defining the role nurses, themselves, will play in the selection and implementation of these systems as they become more steeped in the knowledge of nursing informatics. Other challenges revolve around issues of job satisfaction and the attraction and retention of nursing staff in the midst of a serious nursing shortage. Despite these concerns, it is expected that, in the long run, the creation of an electronic work environment with systems that integrate all functions of the health care team will positively impact cost-effectiveness, productivity, and patient safety while helping to revitalize nursing practice. #

Mobile technologies in the Nursing area

Revista brasileira de enfermagem

To identify in the literature studies on mobile technologies in Nursing. Integrative literature review in which was used the Population, Interest and Context (PICo) strategy, the tool of the National Library of Medicine for formulation of the research question, and search without a determined period of time in the following bibliographic databases: Medical Literature and Retrieval System onLine/PubMed®), Cumulative Index to Nursing & Allied Health Literature (CINAHL), SCOPUS (Elsevier), Latin American and Caribbean Literature in Health Sciences (LILACS) and Nursing Database (BDENF). Data collection period was from January to March 2017. Fifteen articles were selected, in which were addressed mobile technologies in Nursing for nurses, undergraduate students and patients. Mobile technologies in Nursing are a recent theme and enable care data sharing, experience acquisition by undergraduate students and patient empowerment.

Impact of Health Information Technologies in Nursing Practices

ARC Journal of Nursing and Healthcare, 2016

Telehealth implementation includes the practices that help giving care to individuals by monitoring them from a distance, generally in their homes, without making them come to the clinic. Telehealth services ensure that patients participate in their own care effectively, increase their self-direction to cope with the disease, and cover certain initiatives that reduce health-related costs, such as training and consultancy. With a fast development of technology, the use of technological appliances in the area of health would facilitate access to health services. Telehealth practices ensure that the persons who have difficulty accessing health services due to geograpghical and other reasons are provided with equal level of care. Moreover, they facilitate monitoring individuals with chronic diseases and increase the quality of care by providing communication and consultancy for those who give care in areas with technological insufficiencies. In this regard, fast-developing technological infrastructure and use of information technologies in nursing, as stressed by American Nursing Association, are very important today. This study suggested that the primary goals in the future should be to increase the costeffectiveness of health care and strengthen the competencies of professionals and institutions by implementing proper health policies.

Information technology and its benefits in nursing care of the patient

E-methodology

Aim. The aim of this paper is to present the possibilities of application and use of modern information and communication technologies that can improve multidimensional, holistic nursing care of the patient. Methods. The data was collected from literature reviews. Results and Conclusion. Tele-diagnosis, teleconsultation and tele-nursing, i.e. services for monitoring the patient's condition and life parameters, and facilitating therapy and rehabilitation at a distance, are a response to the growing demand for modern medical services in an ageing society. This paper discuss e-services as e-consultations, which are a direct and quick possibility for health check, Internet Patient Account (IKP), e-prescriptions, e-sick leave and also the project "TeleNrsCare”, which create a network for the exchange of knowledge, technology, experience and best practices. E-health and information and communication technologies can bring benefits to the whole society by improving access to med...

Building Nursing Knowledge to Meet the Needs of Disruptive Technology Healthcare Re-Design

Studies in Health Technology and Informatics, 2021

This paper provides a discourse based upon the key development of nursing in response to the emerging 4Ds of health technology re-design. Building informatics capability among health professionals is a workforce issue necessitated through the increasing prevalence of information technology and digitization of healthcare affecting the entire health workforce, specifically front-line nurses. The key concepts will be explored of Digitization, Distribution, Disruption and Diversity, a framework recognising the tsunami of technology such as Big Data analytics, comprehensive decision support systems for nursing, nanobots, robotics, and pharmacogenomics and the impact these have upon the nursing workforce.