Rozanno Locsin

Question 1

an interesting discussion of the correlation between hands-on patient care and the use of technology.

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Technological Competency as Caring in Nursing

Question 2

is defined as anything that makes things
efficient

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Technology

Question 3

to re-formulate the ideal human being such as in replacement parts, both mechanical (prostheses) or organic (transplantation of
organs).

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Technology as completing human beings

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, e.g. computers and gadgets enhancing nursing activities to provide quality patient care such as Penelope or Da Vinci in the Operating Theatres

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Technology as machine technologies

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to meet the demands of nursing care practices, e.g. cyborgs (cybernetic organisms) or anthropomorphic machines and robots such as ‘nursebots

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Technologies that mimic human beings and human activities

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translates your surgeon’s hand movements at the console in real time, bending and rotating the instruments while performing the procedure

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da Vinci system

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Technological Competency as Caring in Nursing

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• Technological competency as caring in nursing is the harmonious coexistence between technologies and caring in nursing.
• The harmonization of these concepts places the practice of nursing within the context of modern healthcare and acknowledges that these concepts can co-exist.
• Technology brings the patient closer to the nurse. Conversely, technology can also increase the gap between the nurse and nursed.
• When technology is used to know persons continuously in the moment, the process of nursing is lived.

Question 8

— The process of knowing person is guided by technological knowing in which persons are appreciated as participants in their care rather than as objects of care.

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Knowing

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— Both the nurse and the one nursed plan a mutual care process from which the nurse can organize a rewarding nursing practice that is responsive to the patient’s desire for care

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Designing

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—The simultaneous practice of conjoined activities which are crucial to knowing persons.
—In this stage of the process is the alternating rhythm of implementation and evaluation.

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Participation in appreciation

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— Knowledge about the person that is derived from knowing, designing, and implementing further informs the nurse and the one nursed

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Verifying knowledge

Question 12

has evolved through time and the care, nurses must tailor itself to these changes. Today we live in a world where new technologies are used everywhere.

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Nursing