ROZZANO LOCSIN:

Technological Competence as
Caring in Nursing
Assumptions

 Knowing persons is a process of nursing that allows

for continuous appreciation of persons moment to
moment (Locsin, 2005).

 Technology is used to know wholeness of persons

moment to moment (Locsin, 2004).
Technological Competency
as Caring in Nursing
Middle range theory
To illustrate the harmonious co-existence
between technology and caring in nursing.
To place nursing in the context of modern
healthcare.
Technology brings the patient closer to
the nurse. Conversely, technology can
also increase the gap between the NURSE
and the NURSED.
The Process of Nursing
a.Knowing

b.Designing

c.Participation in appreciation

d.Verifying Knowledge
 Knowing Persons: Framework for Nursing

Multiple patterns of
knowing in nursing Calls for nursing Nursing as caring
(supporting, affirming,
Empirics, aesthetics, ethic, (Boykin and
celebrating)
personal (Carper 1978) Schoenhofer, 2001)

Responses to calls
for nursing

Knowing persons
Who is person? What
is person?
Technological Knowing in Nursing

Appreciating
humanness of Engaging in
persons mutual knowing

Calls and responses

between the nurse and
person being nursed

Participating in Further
dynamic relationships knowing of
within caring nursing persons
situations
Metaparadigm
 Nursing
 “Nurses value technological competency as an expression of
caring in nursing” (Locsin, 2013).

 Health
 Humanity is preserved by technology
 “An experience that is often expressed in terms of wellness
and illness, and may occur in the presence or absence of
disease” (Nursing Scope and Standards of Practice, 2010, p.
65)
Metapardigm
 Environment
 Environment as the technological world in which we
live.

 Person
 Patients seen as “participants in their care rather than
object of nurse care” (Locsin, 2013).
KNOW ME BETTER!