Technology and Nursing: Practice, Concepts and Issues

ISBN-13: 9781403946492 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 224 str.

Alan Barnard

Opis

Technology and Nursing Practice explains and critically engages with the practice implications of technology for nursing. It takes a broad view of technology, covering not only health informatics, but also 'tele-nursing' and the use of equipment in clinical practice.

Spis treści

Introduction.- Advancing the Meaning of Nursing and Technology; A.Barnard.- Technological Competency as Caring: A Model for Nursing Practice; R.Locsin & A.Barnard.- Intensive Care and Technology: Neonatal and Adult Nursing Practice; D.Raines & K.Keller.- Ethical Implications of Technology on the Patient-Nurse Interaction; S.Beidler & S.Chase.- Paediatric Community Nursing: The Experience of Caring for Technology Dependent Children at Home; K.Wang, A.Barnard & M.Somerville.- Robots and Nursing: Concepts, Relationships and Practice; A.Campling, T.Tanioka & R.Locsin.- Telematics in Health and Nursing: The United Kingdom Experience; P.Proctor.- Computer Utilisation in Patient Care Systems; J.Lopez-Devine & R.Sherman.- Informatics, Information and Nursing: A Critical Examination; M.Conrick & B.Ribbons.- Technological Change and Nursing: A Labour Process Theory Approach to the Social Shaping of Nursing Work; C.Windsor    Research and Scholarship for Technology and Nursing; A.Barnard.- Technological Caring as a Dynamic of Complexity in Nursing Practice; M.Ray.

O autorze

ALAN BARNARD RN, BA, MA, PhD, Senior Lecturer, School of Nursing, Queensland University of Technology, Australia. Alan has published extensively in international journals and books and regularly presents at national and international conferences.

ROZANNO LOCSIN RN, PhD, Professor, Christine E. Lynn College of Nursing, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Florida, USA. His research interests include technology and caring in nursing.