Current Issues in Nursing Flashcards
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Current Nursing Issues
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- Organ donations/transplant: voluntary or compulsory http://www.signezdon.gouv.qc.ca/index.php?accueil-sansjs-en
- Privatization of some aspects of Health Care: who is the patient (more info- Privatizing health care is not the answer: lessons from the United States, Marcia Angell MD, 2008, in CMAJ)
- Technology and Nursing: Quality care?
Loss of personalized care?
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Nursing Informatics
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Antithesis
- Refers to ideas presented in the literature that purport that the use of computers and other information technologies in health care is a threat:
- In fact it is the antithesis or opposite of providing compassionate, caring and client–centered nursing care.
Artifact
- Refers to the notion that technology of all kinds, including the contemporary inclusion of information technologies in nursing is an inherent, almost seamless cultural phenomenon, one that is long-standing and can be taken for granted as part of nursing evolution
Utility
- Refers to the notion that technology of all kinds, including the contemporary inclusion of information technologies in nursing is an inherent, almost seamless cultural phenomenon, one that is long-standing and can be taken for granted as part of nursing evolution.
Technique
- The concept of technique focuses on the application of information technologies in nursing aimed to boost productivity and efficiency, promote best practices and evidenced-based practice, and concretely record nursing activities electronically.
Agency
- Agency incorporates actor-network theory, technological agency in its’ own right, and how nurses interact with information and communication technologies (ICTs) in an interactive and intense, almost reciprocal way.
Power
- Power will be investigated from a disciplinary perspective, including the consequences of prestige, influence, legitimacy, governmental and social access.
Networks
- The notion of networks entails an examination of the application of information technologies in a collaborative way: in interactions with other people, such as colleagues, interdisciplinary team members, clients, and communities of practice and inquiry, sometimes on a global scale.
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Electronic Health Records Pros and Cons
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Pros
- Record keeping: more efficient
- paperless, seamless information processing
- uninterrupted patient record
- time, resource and cost savings
- permanent record
- compilation of latest findings, tests
- accessible and transferable between variety of health professionals
- current, portable, instant documentation
- interfaces with main data bank
- accessible by numerous departments (with controlled access): nurses, MD, physio, pharmacy
- Quality (safety) patient care:
Essential demographics
Allergies, reactions
Photo ID (and #)
Current medications
Family Hx, contact #
Living will info, organ donation
- educational aspect: all need same level
- period of double documentation
- How many of hospital personnel be affected? And Who?
- eliminate patient error
- eliminate medication error
- wireless data entry
- remote health monitoring via wifi: bp, cbgm, pacemaker status ect
Cons
- Patient privacy
- Laws governing IT?
- Controlled access?
- Stolen data, who benefits?
- Hacker resistant
- Legally who has power over patient information
- System break down
- Electrical failure
- Disaster situation
- Network breakdown policy
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High Tech Nursing
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