Rozanno Locsin Flashcards
Discuss the importance of understanding the need for knowing “hjgh-tech” instruments, e.g. monitors, implants, and devices that are a part of patient care, as these will provide opportunities for the nurse to know the patient fully as a person
Technological Competency As Caring Nursing
Grounded in harmonious coexistence between technology and nursing care
Technological Competency As Caring in Nursing
Defined as anything that makes things efficient - from basic diagnostic technologies to therapeutic practices familiar to all nurses
Technology
3 Dimensions of Technological Value
Technology as completing human beings
Technology as Machine technologies
Technology that mimics human beings and human activities
To reformulate the ideal human being such as in replacement oarts, both mechanical (prostheses) or organic (transplantation of organs)
Technology as completing human beings
Computers and gadgets enhancing activities to provide quality patient care
Technology as machine technologies
To meet the demands of nursing care practices (e.g., cyborgs)
Technology that mimics human beings and human activities
4 Nursing Process
Knowing
Designing
Participation in Appreciation
Verifying knowledge
Guided by technological knowing in which persons are appreciated as participants in their care rather than as objects of care
Knowing
Both the nurse and patient 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
Designing
The simultaneous practice of conjoined activities which are crucial to knowing persons; involves the alternating rhythm of implementation and evaluation
Participation in Appreciation
The continuous, circular process demonstrates the ever-changing dynamic nature of knowing in nursing.
Verifying Knowledge
Founder of Technological Competency As Caring in Nursing
Rozanno Locsin
