Caring for Older Persons in a Technologically Advanced Nursing Future

• 作者: Joseph Andrew Pepito Rose E. Constantino Rozzano C. Locsin
• 来源期刊: 健康(英文)
• 学科: 医学
• 关键词: Big Data COMPETENCY GERONTOLOGY NURSING OLDER Persons Technologically Advanced NURSING FUTURE
• 年，卷（期）: 2019,（5）
• 页码范围: 439-463
• 页数: 25页
• 分类号: R73

摘要

As people live longer, a larger percentage will live with multiple chronic conditions and functional impairments such as difficulties with activities of daily living, mobility, and the management of one’s household. The purpose of this paper is to examine the care of older persons in a technologically advanced nursing future by discussing roles and responsibilities of nurses who practice gerontological nursing, and explaining how a technologically advanced future would change the delivery of home health care for older persons in the community. The theory of Technological Competency as Caring in Nursing grounds 3 processes of nursing as knowing persons as caring, wholeness is oneness, and caring as a multi-dimensional process. Harnessing technology for the health of older persons would enable them to live independently, socially engaged, and safely. A technologically advanced nursing future leads to concomitant sustainable disruptive and frugal innovations in healthcare. Nurses in practice must take advantage of these disruptions and consider frugal innovations as the futures of nursing education, practice, and research are here.