Monday, November 29, 2010

Importance of Technology in Professional Nursing

 What has been the impact of technology on professional nursing?

          Nursing—what it is today is the result of changes in the scientific and technological advancement. The need of advanced healthcare technology nowadays has now existed by its application in daily life of a professional nurse. This advancement plays an important role for convenience.
           One of the products of technology that greatly and significantly contribute the life of a professional nurse is the computer. It is both beneficial in all aspect of nursing field namely industrial, community, and school or educational nursing.
          Primarily in clinical nursing, healthcare is again a field where technology has made things lot better and increased the efficiency in patient care. Nurses can use computers to take down and store notes of the patients, as they observe their condition while on rounds. As the supervised rounds involve a lot of patients and a lot of information, using a computerized personal digital assistant makes it easier to access the right medical information at the right time instead of carrying a bunch of paper work and then take time to search the piece of paper to access information when you need to be quick, efficient and accurate.
          Secondly in nursing education, clinical instructors would agree that computerized power point presentations are much more efficient and has more impact on the receiver when it comes to presenting data. They use the application of computers to present the large and complicated detailed form of data, which of course is a part of the medical study, in a very simplified and effective form. When speaking of uses of computers in medicine, features like power point presentations, slide shows, and videos are used to present medical procedures and techniques for better understanding of complex medical procedures and their treatments. It can help the nurse to properly present and format research, and by the aid of the internet it will present a wider horizon to find relevant study materials. The internet has many reliable and trusted website in reference to medical journals. A lot of in depth knowledge and understanding can be gained through the uses of computers in nursing education. Moreover, nurses use computerized quiz and medical tests with immediate feedback that can help them to brush and develop their medical facts and requirements without any delay. Among the uses of computers in education, the most appealing and outstanding feature of computer based education is that it gives boost to interactive learning. Unlike traditional method of learning where everything was done based on papers and individual understanding, computer insisted learning encourage more interaction and communication among the instructor and the students increasing the scope to learn and understand better. Another aspect to interacting is that it also gives you a chance to enhance the communication techniques in nursing.
          In the field of occupation and industrial nursing, computers plays an important role in advancement of diagnostic gadgets that would help the nurse  to identify nursing diagnoses which will be use as a basis of the implementation and nursing evaluation of care.
          As a whole, technological application really makes wonders and possibilities  in the professional field of nursing.