Present evidence from recent scholarly publications to address the impact of technology on nursing care
related to:
The advantages of appropriately using technology in healthcare
Risks of technology use in healthcare
Describe professional and ethical principles guiding the appropriate use of technology in healthcare.
* Technology in nursing care allows nurse to improve efficiency and communicate more effectively .
* Advantages of appropriately using technology in healthcare :
- it decrease nursing demand
- enhance client care
- enhance relationship between evidence based practice and information .
- prevent the medication and treatemnt error with handheld technology
- reduce cross infection and other health care costs .
- virtual titration of medication and virtual prescription changes.
- timely enhancement of patient self care .
* Risk of technology use in health care
- Data security
- Digital media manipulation
- sometime errors in the readings of machines
- hazardous shock or electrix shock .
-privacy concerns
- false results of relavant reports .
- harmfull radiation from device can lead to several disease .
* Professional and ethical principle
- Data security
- confidentiality
- data transmission
- quality care
- re interpretation in suspected false data
- assess which technology is funded for which treatment .
- follow correct step by step of using device .
- watch for the errors
- dont misuse the technology .
- assess the patient juctice and regular evalualtion of patient health care .
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