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