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Student Learning Outcomes

Ateneo de Davao University • The students are able to point out the differences of the skills
acquired per level by letting the students experience each level such
Locsin’s Theory that the learner will develop deeper understanding of skill acquisition
necessity for the student to effectively create a plan of care for a
Technological Competency as Caring in Nursing particular situation

Lectured by:
JENNY-ANN B. SORIANO, RN MAN
Clinical Instructor, Ateneo de Davao
University
Davao City, Philippines

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Technological Competency as Caring in Nursing

• Technological Competency as Caring in Nursing is a middle range theory

grounded in Nursing as Caring (Boykin & Schoenhofer), 2001).
• It is illustrated in the practice of nursing grounded in the harmonious
coexistence between technology and caring in nursing.

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Assumptions Dimensions of Technological Value in the Theory

The assumptions of the theory are: 1. Technology as completing human beings to re-
formulate the ideal human being such as in
• Persons are caring by virtue of their replacement parts, both mechanical
humanness (Boykin & Schoenhofer, 2001). (prostheses) or organic (transplantation of
organs.)
• Persons are whole or complete in the
2. Technology as machine technologies, e.g.
moment (Boykin & Schoenhofer, 2001). computers and gadgets enhancing nursing
• Knowing persons is a process of nursing that activities to provide quality patient care such
as Penelope or Da Vinci in the Operating
allows for continuous appreciation of Theatres;
persons moment to moment (Locsin, 2005).
3. Technologies that mimic human beings and
• Technology is used to know wholeness of human activities to meet the demands of
persons moment to moment (Locsin, 2004). nursing care practices, e.g. cyborgs (cybernetic
organisms) or anthropomorphic machines and
• Nursing is a discipline and a professional robots such as ‘nursebots’ (Locsin & Barnard,
practice (Boykin & Schoenhofer, 2001). 2007).
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Technological Competency as Caring in Nursing Process of Nursing

• 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 A. Knowing
closer to the nurse. Conversely,
technology can also increase the • The process of knowing person is guided by
technological knowing in which persons are
gap between the nurse and appreciated as participants in their care rather
nursed. than as objects of care.
• When technology is used to • The nurse enters the world of the other.
know persons continuously in • In this process, technology is used to magnify
the moment, the process of the aspect of the person that requires revealing
nursing is lived. - a representation of the real person.
• The person’s state change moment to moment
- person is dynamic, living, and can not be
predicted.
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Process of Nursing Process of Nursing

B. Designing C. Participation in appreciation
• Both the nurse and the one nursed • The simultaneous practice of conjoined
(patient) plan a mutual care process from activities which are crucial to knowing
which the nurse can organize a rewarding persons.
nursing practice that is responsive to the • In this stage of the process is the
patient’s desire for care alternating rhythm of implementation and
evaluation.
• The evidence of continuous knowing,
implementation and participation is
reflective of the cyclical process of knowing
persons.
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Process of Nursing Future Research

D. Verifying knowledge • Experience of ‘caring for’
• Lived Experiences of being ‘cared for’
• The continuous, circular process
demonstrates the ever-changing, • Ethics & Technological dependence
dynamic nature of knowing in nursing. • Cloning and Bionic Parts and the
experience of being with.
• Knowledge about the person that is
derived from knowing, designing, and • Design and development of
instrument to measure technological
implementing further informs the nurse competency as caring in nursing
and the one nursed.
• Testing of instrument to measure
Patient Experience with Technologies
• Genetics and the future of humans
as posthumans
• Burn out phenomenon and the
perspective use of robots in the
practice of nursing
• Nursing Administration calls to care
for nurses in high tech
environments
• University of technological
competency as caring in varying
nursing settings.

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References
1.https://nursing.fau.edu/uploads/docs/852/Locsin_Technological%20C
ompetency%20Jerusalem(5).pdf

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