| Description |
xxvi, 236 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
1. A Framework for caring in a technologically dependent nursing practice environment / Savina O. Schoenhofer -- 2. Technology and historical inquiry in nursing / Alan Barnard and Angela Cushing -- 3. Pictures of paradox: technology, nursing and human science / Gail J. Mitchell -- 4. Complex culture and technology: toward a global caring communitarian ethics of nursing / Marilyn A. Ray -- 5. The Language of nursing: a technology of caring / Marguerite J. Purnell -- 6. Technology, de-skilling, and nurses: the impact of the technologically changing environment / Ruth G. Rinard -- 7. Outcomes of caring in high-technology practice environments / Savina O Schoenhofer -- 8. Practicing nursing: technological competency as an expression of caring / Rozzano C. Locsin -- 9. On the relationship between technique and dehumanization / Alan Barnard -- 10. Suffering and growth in the shadow of machines: nursing and the iron lung, 1928-1955 -- 11. The Symbiosis of technology and caring: nursing of older adults / Rebecca A. Johnson -- 12. Challenging contemporary practices in critical care settings / Marian C. Turkel -- 13. Cloning the clone: marvel of technology or nursing nightmare? / Jill. E. Winland-Brown - 14. Technology in a climate of restructuring: contradictions for nusing / Eileen Willis and Karen Parish -- 15. Demand pull or technology push: which is influencing change in nursing care and information practice? / P. Jane Greaves and Stephen Wilmot -- 16 Exploring the gender-technology relation in nursing / Margarete Sandelowski -- 17. Problem-based learning and technology: a caring pedagogy in nursing / Constance M. Maker -- 18. Telehealth nursing: challenging caring in nursing / Lore K. Wright, Suzanne Pursley-Crotteau and Loretta Schlachta-Fairchild |
| Summary |
While the increase in lifesaving technology has extended both the length and quality of life for patients, critics have argued that health care professionals often read the technology rather than the patient. This critique strikes at the heart of nursing, which defines itself in terms of care for the whole person. Providing a comprehensive review of the issues surrounding the rapidly emerging field of technology, this collection describes how the nursing profession faces and deals with technological advances. The complexities of technology intimately influence aspects of nursing in every setting, and directly challenge caring as the essence of nursing. The present collection gives practicing nurses, students of basic and advanced nursing, and other health care professionals an overview of the contemporary situation of technology in mainstream health care and how it impacts on the quality of that care |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographic references |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Nursing.
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Empathy.
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Medical technology -- Effect of managed care on.
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Medical technology -- Social aspects.
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Nursing -- Technological innovations.
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Medical care -- Technological innovations.
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Nurse and patient.
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Nursing Care.
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Empathy.
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Technology.
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| Author |
Locsin, Rozzano C., 1954-
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| LC no. |
00045393 |
| ISBN |
0865693005 : |
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0865693021 paperback alkaline paper |
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