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NURSING SHORTAGE
Technology for nursing excellence
Technology for nursing excellence
In today’s challenging health
care environment, all health care
providers and health care plans
are turning to technology to
solve problems and to achieve
better patient outcomes.
Technology is an important component of the health care field because doctors, nurses and medical specialists use technology in the diagnosis and treatment of health problems. Graduates of medical and nursing programs must be knowledgeable and comfortable using this technology.
Health care organizations adopt technology to
improve quality and patient safety, increase
efficiency, decrease time-consuming and redundant
paperwork, and enhance communication.
Technologies used by nurses offer the means for
preventing errors and adverse events (e.g.,
medication errors, miscommunications, delays in
treatment, and adverse events—such as nosocomial
infections, pressure ulcers, falls, and complications
of immobility).
Benefits of technology
Organizational factors
Societal factors
Environmental factors
Factors affecting the use of technology
policies, procedures
management commitment
employee empowermen
t
training programs
culture, social norms
Organizational factors
Societal factors
support within the nursing
team
acceptance of computers in
nursing
level of motivation
climate of trust
Building
Equipments and resources
Physical environment
The most common
inventions and innovations in
nursing services includes:
bedpans, bandages, surgical splints, nursing bottle, foot cradles, abdominal, uterine and breast supports, portable tub wheeled to bedside, syringe, safety pin, and diapers to improvements of stethoscope
From year 1850-1900
Technological advancements involving new medicines particularly antibiotics, IV therapy, and administration of blood products became available.
From year 1950-1960
Machines of all kinds
from dialysis to cardiac
monitors to fetal monitors and
automatic recording devices
are invented.
From year 1965-1980
Supply
From year 1980 to present
Technological advancements include:
Wireless devices: Hand-held Computers, Smart phones .
Real-time equipment and supplies location systems.Workflow management systems such as automated
census boards. Wireless patient monitoring systems for prevention
of falls. Electronic medication administration with bar
coding. Electronic clinical documentation with clinical
decision support capability.
Delivery
robots for
interdepartmental
services, such as
meal delivery, hospital
lab deliveries, laundry
services are most
news inventions.
Also safer medication administration and patient safety monitoring devices, decision-making tools and telenursing.
telephone-basedcomputing Most
common in home health care
nursing, allows a nurse to phone in
information from the client's home
or to upload all her documentation
of the day's visits to the agency's
computer.
Telenursing
videoconference technologies and interactive television are the most widely used mode of telenursing. A surgeon performing surgery in one state consults with a surgeon in another state via a live. interactive television used to follow up patients, check wound healing, and determine how accurately patients are administering medications-all in real time.
American Association of Colleges of Nursing (2002) recommended incorporation of technology into nursing education. Careful use of technology in education enhance the profession's ability to educate nurses for practice, prepare future nurse educators, and advance nursing science in an era when the number of qualified nurses, faculty and nurse researchers is well below national need.
The main types of technology currently used in nursing education are computers and human patient simulators.
Human patient simulators are used as an
aid in simulating real-life medical situations that
a future nurse will be called on to help with.
These simulators can be programmed to change
blood pressure, breathing rate, symptoms,
temperature and other body functions in
response to the care providing. Instructors can
allow nursing students to make errors that cause
the patient simulator to go into cardiac arrest or
die.
Distance learning is a set of learning strategies to meet the learning needs of students separate from the traditional classroom setting and sometimes from the traditional roles of faculty. Distance education requires that teachers and learners are separate from each other.
These technologies encompass a variety of content-delivery methods, including audio conference by telephone, audiocassette tape, videotaped instruction, electronic mail (e-mail), faxing, fixed computer media (CD-ROM and floppy disk), Internet list-serves, room-based video conference (interactive television), desktop video conference, and World Wide Web.
Advantages of distance learning
• Saves money and time that spend on
travel to school.
• study from anywhere while pursuing the
education of your choice.
• Gain extra knowledge through internet.
• Self-paced learning: for slow and quick
learners.
Advantages of distance learning
Accessibility: online classes address physical
accessibility issues that some people with limited
mobility encounter when taking traditional
classes. You don't have to worry about gaining
access to a classroom or sitting on uncomfortable
desks. Instead, you can use your comfortable
furniture in your home while enjoying free
movement and a chance to further your
education.
Successful distance technology Planning
Technology infrastructure
Faculty development
Student support
Evaluation of
outcomes
But
Budgets for nursing education are
often limited making it difficult for nursing
programs to grow and expand without
funding from grants, private donors or
foundations. Nurse researchers, educators,
clinicians, and administrators need to work
together to actively deal with the issues of
advanced technology.
Thank you
A.L:Samah.A