Question

Identify the process for decision making regarding technology. Discuss nursing role in identifying appropriate technology for practice.

Answer 1

#. The decision making process :

its a procedure for carefully considering alternatives and their consequences before you make a final decision

# The five steps :-

1. identify the problem

2. list the alternatives

3. determine the pros and cons

4. evaluate your pros and cons

5. make a decision

#. Historically, nursing has acquired knowledge through tradition, authority, borrowed theory, trial and error, personal experience, role modeling, reasoning, and research. Current demand for safer, cost-effective, quality care requires evidence of the best practices supported by research. Nurses must be active participants in the design of automated documentation to ensure that information is recorded appropriately and in a format that can be accessed and useful to all healthcare providers. Nurses need to be adept at using patient-centered IT tools to access information to expand their knowledge in a just-in-time, evidence-based fashion. There must be a shift from critical thinking to critical synthesis.

Nurses are the healthcare professionals who spends most of the time in providing care to the patients . They are very well aware of the needs and requirements of the patient so it would be better to involve nurses in choosing an appropriate technology which would satisfy the needs of the patients and also makes the healthcare workers tasks more simpler and easy .