Nursing Practice: Technology, Safety, and Communication Analysis

This essay explores the critical role of medical technology in nursing, focusing on its impact on patient safety, communication, and healthcare delivery. It highlights the use of information technologies like electronic health records and diagnostic tools for urinary tract infections, while also addressing privacy and confidentiality concerns. The essay emphasizes the importance of nurses' knowledge in using biosensors and microfluidics. It also considers potential drawbacks such as the need for increased training and reduced face-to-face interaction. Furthermore, the assignment discusses Levine’s Conservation Model and its application to nursing processes, including assessment, judgment, interventions, and evaluation, particularly in the context of urinary tract infections, focusing on improving patient outcomes through pharmacological and non-pharmacological interventions.

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Safety, use of technology, or communication in nursing
Medical technology is abroad field that plays an important role in sustaining the health of the patients. Nowadays, information
technologies are being used in pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, medical device and equipment. Technology permeates all the
dimensions of critical care and enhances the communication and monitoring of the patients (Funk 2011). It aids to get vital
information and facilitates the communication process in health care. Electronic health records are used nowadays to for the
documentation of the patient records. New and the developing diagnostic technologies are being used nowadays for treating the
urinary tract infections. However, with the growth of the information technologies comes the privacy and the confidentiality issues. It
has to be remembered that urinary tract infections are often associated to sexually transmitted diseases, which can lead to several
social stigmatisation (Topol and Hill 2012). Hence, it is important to conserve the integrity and dignity of the patient by respecting the
privacy of the patient. Furthermore in order to address the needs of the patients, the nurses should have substantial knowledge about
the use of the biosensors and the microfluidics for improving the diagnosis of the UTI. Some of the disadvantages related to the use of
technology is that more nurses will require training in information technologies that can interfere with the availability during the work
or loss of data due to unauthorised entry or power disconnection. Although it saves much time, but the probably reduces the chance of
face to face interaction giving rise to confusion.

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References
Funk, M., 2011. As health care technology advances: benefits and risks. American Journal of Critical Care, 20(4), pp.285-291.
Topol, E.J. and Hill, D., 2012. The creative destruction of medicine: How the digital revolution will create better health care (p. 2).
New York: Basic Books.

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Nursing processes using Myra Levine nursing
Levine’s Conservation model- When a patient is in conservation, then it can be said
that patient is being able to adapt to the situation without much effort.
 Assessment
 Judgement
 Hypotheses
 Interventions
 Evaluation
Assessment
Past Medical History
Previous history of urinary tract
infection, family health history,
sexual history, risk factors that
can cause incontinence, bowel
habits, eating habits.
Medications
Trimethoprim/sulfamethoxazole,
Nitrofurantoin , Cephalaxin to
treat urinary tract infection
Priority nursing
diagnosis
(Judgment)
Impaired Urinary
elimination, infection
and acute pain
Hypothesis
Goals and outcomes
 The client will have a normal
elimination pattern.
 The patient will be free from
urinary tract infection,
evidenced by the absence of
fever, pain, chills, clear non-
foul smelling urine, normal
WBC count
 The patient will use various
pharmacological and non-
pharmacological pain relief
strategies
Interventions
Assessing the pattern
of elimination,
encouraging the patient
for fluid intake,
conduction of a
urinalysis, to use non –
pharmacological
techniques and the
pharmacology for
treating pain.
Rationale:
To determine the
presence of any urinary
infection. Urinalysis for
detecting the presence of
RBC and WBCs in the
urine. Non-
pharmacological
techniques like
relaxation, guided
imagery or distraction
helps in decrease pain
Evaluation
The client will demonstrate
increase urine output, will
demonstrate less pain, no
infection evidenced by lack
of the fever. The patient
will report satisfactory
management of pain at
levels less than 3-4 on a
scale of 0-10.

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