Technology and Nursing: Practice, concepts and issues

by Alan Barnard, Rozzano C. Locsin

Technology and Nursing Practice explains and critically engages with the practice implications of technology for nursing. It takes a broad view of technology, covering not only health informatics, but also 'tele-nursing' and the use of equipment in clinical practice.

224 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2007

About the author

Alan Barnard is a world class communications strategist with a vast experience in devising and executing successful landmark campaigns. He made a major impact during his ten years working for the Labour Party and played a pivotal role in their 1997 general election victory. His work as Labour's Director of Campaigns and Elections helped change political campaigning in the United Kingdom. Now, as a founding Director of BBM Campaigns, he is taking campaigning into new territories.

Reviews

[Rainier Moreno-Lacalle · Rating 3 out of 5]

My primary motivation in reading this book is that one of the author is my former teacher (i.e., Dr. Locsin). This book tackles technology as an important tool in executing nursing functions. It underscores the coined term 'technological caring' without shunning the core philosophy nursing believes such as as holism. The approach in this book is carefully crafted, that it reaches nurses currently using technology and how it may change or influence their practice. It gives examples in the relationship between robots and nursing, telematics, computer utilization, and the promise of scholarship in technological nursing. May favorite part of the books is the poem written by Shiela Carr in page 26 and I quote the last four stanza:
"Don't you see nurse that you can know me- I'm not
a chart or tubes of medication, monitors or all
the other things you look at so intensely- I'm
more than that, I'm scared- just look in my eyes."