ROZZANO LOCSIN Flashcards
TECHNOLOGICAL COMPETENCY AS CARING
ROZZANO LOCSIN
A Filipino American Professor of Nursing at Tokushima University
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Professor Emeritus of Florida Atlantic University
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Visiting Professor at Universities in Thailand, Uganda and the Philippines
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Born in 1954 in the Philippines. A registered nurse, he Is a native of Dumaguete City
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Earned his Bachelor of Science from Silliman University in 1976 and his MA in Nursing in 1978
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He received his PhD in Nursing from the University of the Philippines in 1988
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• In 1991, he joined the Florida Atlantic University, Christine E. Lynn College of Nursing, where he became a tenured Professor of Nursing.
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He is now a Professor Emeritus. Resides in Japan and serves as a professor of nursing at Tokushima University
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Edith Moore Copeland Excellence in Creativity Award from Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing
2003 ROZZANO LOCSIN
inducted as Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing (FAAN)
2006 ROZZANO LOCSIN
first recipient of the Lillian O. Slemp Endowed Chair in Nursing at the University of Texas-Pan American in Edinburg, Texas
2007 ROZZANO LOCSIN
inaugural recipient of the John F. Wymer, Jr. Distinguished Professor in Nursing at Florida Atlantic University
August 2009 ROZZANO LOCSIN
Julian V. Sotejo Medallion of Honor from the University of the Philippines College of Nursing Alumni Association International in Los Angeles, California
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Outstanding Sillimanian Award – Silliman University
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Outstanding Paulinian Award – St. Paul University Quezon City
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“The practice of knowing persons as whole, frequently with the use of varying technologies”
TECHNOLOGICAL COMPETENCY AS CARING
he described nursing as “technological competency as caring in nursing” that is focused on the proficient practice of nurses using technologies to know persons more fully as caring, while affirming that being technologically competent is being caring
2005 ROZZANO LOCSIN
- Persons are caring by virtue of their humanness (Boykin & Schoenofer, 2001)
ASSUMPTIONS
- Persons are whole or complete in the moement (Boykin & Schoenhofer, 2001)
ASSUMPTIONS
- Knowing persons is a process of nursing that allows for continuous appreciation of person’s moment to moment
ASSUMPTIONS
- Technology is used to know wholeness of person’s moment to moment (Locsin, 2004)
ASSUMPTIONS
- Nursing is a discipline and a professional practice (Boykin & Schoenhofer, 2001)
ASSUMPTIONS
• Technology as completing human beings to re-formulate the ideal human being such as in replacement parts, both mechanical (prosthese) or organic (transplantation of organs)
DIMENSIONS OF TECHNOLOGICAL VALUE IN THE THEORY
• Technology as machine technologies, e.g. computers and gadgets enhancing nursing activities to provide quality patient care such as Penelope or Da Vinci in the Operating Theatres;
DIMENSIONS OF TECHNOLOGICAL VALUE IN THE THEORY
• Technologies that mimic human beings and human activities to meet the demands of nursing care practices, e.g. cyborgs (cybernetic organisms) or anthropomorphic machines and robots such as “nursebots’ (Locsin & Barnard, 2007)
DIMENSIONS OF TECHNOLOGICAL VALUE IN THE THEORY
• Technological competency as caring in nursing is the harmonious coexistence between technologies and caring in nursing
TECHNOLOGICAL COMPETENCY AS 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
TECHNOLOGICAL COMPETENCY AS CARING IN NURSING
• Technology brings the patient closer to the nurse. Conversely, technology can also increase the gap between the nurse and nursed
TECHNOLOGICAL COMPETENCY AS CARING IN NURSING
• When technology is used to know persons continuously in the moment, the process of nursing is lived
TECHNOLOGICAL COMPETENCY AS CARING IN NURSING
- “Nurses value technological competency as an expression of caring in nursing”
Nursing
Humanity is preserved by technology
Health
“an experience that is often expressed in terms of wellness and illness, and may occur in the presence or absence of disease”
Health
- Environment as the technological world in which we live
Environment
- Patients seen as “participants in their care rather than object of nurse care”
Person
- Describes persons as human beings who are whole and complete in any moment
Person
is the only middle-range nursing theory that specifically addresses technological knowing within the harmonious coexistence of nursing, technology and caring.
GENERALITY OF LOCSIN’S THEORY
This practice theory is focused on “knowing persons”, with key elements of technological knowing, designing and participative engaging
GENERALITY OF LOCSIN’S THEORY
Technological competency as caring in nursing is the harmonious coexistence between technologies and caring in nursing.
RELEVANCE TO NURSING
Concepts can co-exist.
RELEVANCE TO NURSING
Locsin has described nursing as “technological competency as caring in nursing that is focused on the proficient practice of nurses using technologies to know persons more fully as caring, while affirming that being technologically competent is being caring.
CLARITY OF LOCSIN’S THEORY
Technology brings the patient closer to the nurse. Conversely, technology can also increase the gap between the nurse and nursed
RELEVANCE TO NURSING