Advancing Technology, Caring, and Nursing

by Rozzano Locsin

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780865693005
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	06/30/2001
Pages:	264
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.75(d)

About the Author

ROZZANO C. LOCSIN is Associate Professor of the College of Nursing at Florida Atlantic University./e

Table of Contents

Foreword by Jean Watson
Preface
Introduction by Rozzano C. Locsin
Foundational Concepts of Technology, Caring, and Nursing
A Framework for Caring in a Technologically Dependent Nursing Practice Environment by Savina O. Schoenhofer
Technology and Historical Inquiry in Nursing by Alan Bernard and Angela Cushing
Pictures of Paradox: Technology, Nursing, and Human Science by Gail J. Mitchell
Complex Culture and Technology: Toward a Global Caring Communitarian Ethics of Nursing by Marilyn A. Ray
The Language of Nursing: A Technology of Caring by Marguerite J. Purbanell
Technology, De-skilling, and Nurses: The Impact of the Technologically Changing Environment by Ruth G. Rinard
Practice Issues: Outcomes of Caring in Nursing Caring Outcomes in Nursing Practice from a Technological World by Savina Schoenhofer
Practicing Nursing: Technological Competency as Expression of Caring by Rozzano C. Locsin
On the Relationship between Technique and Dehumanization by Alan Barnard
Suffering Growth in the Shadow of Machines: Nursing and the Iron Lung, 1928-1955 by Lynne H. Dunphy
The Symbiosis of Technology and Caring: Nursing of Older Adults by Rebecca A. Johnson
Challenging Contemporary Practices in Critical Care Settings by Marian C.Turkel
Application Issues: Technology and Caring in Nursing
Cloning the Clone: Medical Marvel or Nursing Nightmare? by Jill E. Winland-Brown
Technology in a Climate of Restructuring: Contradictions for Nursing by Eileen Willis and Karen Parrish
Demand Pull or Technological Push: Which Is Influencing Change in Nursing Care and Infromation Practice? by P. Jane Greaves and Stephen Wilmot
Exploring the Gender-Technology Relation in Nursing by Margarete Sandelowski
Problem-Based Learning and Technology: A Caring Pedagogy in Nursing by Constance M. Baker
Telehealth Nursing: Caring Challenges Expressing Nursing by Lore K. Wright, Suzanne Pursley-Crotteau, and Loretta Schlachta