Technology Competency

as Caring in Nursing
by Rozzano C. Locsin
 What we’ll discuss
• Rozzano C. Locsin
• Assumptions
• Dimensions of Technological
Value in the Theory
• Technological Competency as
Caring in Nursing.
• The Process of Nursing
Rozzano C. Locsin
• A Filipino-American Professor of
Nursing at Tokushima University
in Thailand, Uganda, and the
Philippines.
• A Professor Emeritus of Florida
Atlantic University.
• A visiting professor at
Universities in Thailand,
Uganda, and the Philippines.
Assumptions
• Persons are caring by virtue of their
humanness (Boykin & Schoenhofer,
2001).
• Persons are whole or complete in the
moment (Boykin & Schoenhofer, 2001).
• Knowing persons is a process of
nursing that allows for continuous
appreciation of persons moment to
moment (Locsin,
• Technology is used2005).
to know
wholeness of persons moment to
moment (Locsin, 2004).
• Nursing is a discipline and a professional
practice (Boykin & Schoenhofer, 2001).
 Dimensions of Technological Value
in the Theory
• Technology as completing human
• beings
Technology as machine
• technologies
Technologies that mimic
human being
and human
activities.
 Technological Competency as Caring in 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 closer to the nurse.
Conversely, technology can also increase the gap
between the nurse and nursed.
• When technology is used to know persons continuously
The Process of
Nursing
KNOWIN DESIGNIPARTICIPATIONVERIFYING
G NG IN KNOWLED
APPRECIATION GE
 Knowing
- It is guided by technological
knowing which persons are
appreciated as participants in
their care rather than as objects
of care.
Designing
- Both the nurse and the one
nursed plan a mutual care
process from which the nurse
can organize a rewarding nurse
practice that is responsive to the
 Participation in
- The simultaneous
Appreciationpractice of
conjoined activities which are
crucial to knowing persons.
Verifying Knowledge
- The continuous, circular process
demonstrates the ever-changing, dynamic
nature of knowing nursing.
- Knowledge about the person is derived
from knowing, designing, and
implementing further informs the nurse
 References
https://www.semanticscholar.org/
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for
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