Course Task 13

The person being nursed is thought to be unique and necessitates creative and imaginative
ways of being cared for. Today’s technologies have created innovative ways to care for such people.
Locsin does not define a human being as being purely natural, but references those who have
implanted devices such as cardiac pacemakers, insulin pumps and artificial limbs as also being whole
(Locsin R., 2010).
> As a nurse what is the importance of technology in nursing practice? How does affect the activity
daily living of human being either a nurse or patient? Give scenario that will focus on the technology
aspects to nursing

We all know how fast our society is when it comes to new inventions that would make our

lives easier. In all aspects of our daily lives or routine, it somehow became impossible to detach

technology from everything we do.

As a future nurse, I perceive technology important to our nursing practice, because it is the

tool that helps greatly in knowing how to successfully practice caring in our patients. As stated by

Locsin (2010) in his theory, technology can help us in knowing the wholeness of an individual.

With the use of it, we are able to give the whole care a patient needs or deserves. It advances our

ability of caring in nursing. With technological competency, we may or we are able to up our

knowledge or capability when it comes to giving the patients the care they need. Nurses can now

attain knowledge or information even without the need of exerting too much effort. Just like

technology in general, it makes the nurse’s activity easier or manageable than it was before.

According to Locsin (2010), Technology brings the patient closer to the nurse. This notion

is true when the nurse and the patient were able to bond over the fact that the nurse was able to

provide or guide the patient through the care, he/she needs, with the help of technological

competence the nurse possess. The nurse was able to know the wholeness of the patient thus

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leading her/him to formulate the exact care the patient seeks. Locsin (2010) also said in his theory

that technology may also increase the gap between the nurse and the one being nursed.

The evident use of technology in nursing practice is when nurses use gadgets such as

sphygmomanometer – an instrument used for measuring blood pressure, another developed

medical instrument is the one that’s used in monitoring heartbeat – the electrocardiograph

machine. We are also familiar with the machine that is used to keep oxygen flowing through

someone’s body – the ventilator. A machine that keeps someone alive. The life support frequently

used for the patients who needs their body alive. The charting too, with the use of computers it is

much easier to do it. It’s not a hassle anymore to make records of the patients. With these tools, it

makes nursing much easier. We get to somehow completely provide the care everyone needs.

LUMILAN, DESEREE JANE C. BSN 1-Y1 -2