The Role of Healthcare Smartphone Applications in Nursing Transition

This report examines the role and impact of healthcare smartphone applications within the nursing profession. It begins with an introduction to these applications, highlighting their design to provide health-related information and services to healthcare professionals, including nurses, patients, and the general public. A literature review explores how these applications aid patient education, engagement in self-care, and potentially reduce healthcare expenses. The report critically evaluates the transition to using these applications, addressing concerns about data privacy and the accuracy of information, while emphasizing the importance of nurses guiding patients in their use. The significance of these applications is discussed, including their ability to deliver patient-focused solutions and facilitate continuous communication between patients and healthcare providers. The report concludes by summarizing the availability of health-related information and services through these familiar tools, emphasizing their role in providing patient-focused and systematic care. References are provided to support the information presented.

Professional
Transition in
Nursing
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Introduction
• A healthcare smartphone
application is designed to provide
health related information,
solutions and services to the
healthcare professionals in the
healthcare industry that includes
nurses, patients, doctors and the
general consumers (Simpao et al.,
2015).
• Coping with this transition process
promotes efficient provision care
as well as competency among the
registered nurses.

Literature Review
Healthcare applications in
smartphones helps in patient
education and aids in engaging
them in self-care promoting the
decrease in the healthcare
expenses.
These applications aim at
preventing the re-admission of the
patients.
It aids in strengthening the health
knowledge of the patients (Dhiliwal
& Salins, 2015).

Critical evaluation of the
Transition
• The application raises concern
regarding the data privacy some of
the applications might also provide
inaccurate information (Simpao et
al., 2015).
• Some of the applications can be
solely for the purpose of recreation.
• But nurses should aid the patients to
exploit discretion and common
sense before using any healthcare
applications and read the
disclaimers correctly (Zhang et al.,
2015).

Significance of the intervention
• The healthcare applications delivers patient focussed solutions and also
provides continuous communication between the patient and the healthcare
provider.
• The authenticated applications provide user friendly interface promoting
usability, performance and style (Zhang et al., 2015).
• It aids in identifying the major concerns of the patients and provides
personalized solutions.
• It can also track the recovery process of the patient and aids in reducing the
chances of readmissions of the patient in the hospital (Cornet & Holden, 2018).

Conclusion
• These applications ensure the availability of the health
related information, services.
• These are familiar tools that are used in the smart phones
exploited both by the registered healthcare professionals and
the patients.
• It give patient focussed solutions and provides systematic
care.

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