Statement of the Topic
Digital technology and related innovative solutions have permeated every aspect of healthcare, affecting every process of managing patients’ needs. However, while enabling nurses and healthcare practitioners to deliver services of better quality and at a much faster rate, these technologies require the presence of substantial skills. This paper will examine the existing perspectives on teaching and training healthcare employees to utilize current and future technology correctly and learn new skills promptly.
Annotated Bibliography
Bell, K. (2018). Public policy and health informatics. Seminars in Oncology Nursing, 34(2), 184-187. Web.
As the importance of digital technology in nursing and the need to develop respective skills for handling health-related issues with its help in the nursing context becomes evident, the need for policies encouraging the digitalization of nursing and healthcare emerges. The study by Bell (2018), an Advanced Practice Registered Nurse, explains how health informatics should shape the current health policies. According to the study results, nurses must have an accurate understanding of how IT and ICT tools shape nursing practice and the delivery of nursing services. Thus, the development of appropriate policies promoting nurse training will become possible. Reliance on the information supplied form legal documents such as the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act is the key advantage of the article since it allows the author to embrace legal, health-related, and educational aspects of the issue. However, the paper suffers from the absence of a specific case to consider. The article can be used in this research as the argument in favor of creating training options for healthcare and nursing staff.
Cannon, C. (2018). Telehealth, mobile applications, and wearable devices are expanding cancer care beyond walls. Seminars in Oncology Nursing, 34(2), 118-125. Web.
The past few decades have been particularly important for the development of digitalization in nursing, thus proving the need for staff training. An MSN and a Nurse Practitioner, Cannon (2018) state that Telehealth, mobile health (mHealth), and mobile devices have had a profoundly positive outcome on the well-being and the quality of life in oncology patients. The study is limited by the lack of analysis regarding the accessibility of said services to patients. However, the wide range of tools included in the review makes the results quite accurate. The article can be utilized in this research as the argument in favor of active digital training for nurses.
Guinigundo, A. (2018). Is the virtual colonoscopy a replacement for optical colonoscopy? Seminars in Oncology Nursing, 34(2), 132-136. Web.
While not addressing the issue of nurse education directly, the article by Guinigundo (2018) questions the necessity of introducing innovative and, specifically, digital tools into the nursing context. Namely, using the concept of virtual colonoscopy as an example, Guinigundo (2018) arrives at the conclusion that the virtual tool provides a different range of opportunities. Therefore, the importance of nurse education for mastering the skills of managing digital tools is justified. Being a nurse practitioner, the author has quite a large credibility as an advocate for using virtual tools in the oncology context. The straightforwardness of the information delivery is the main advantage of the article, yet, as a review, it lacks the evidence supplied from a specific case and an experimental group. Nonetheless, the article functions in the context of this research as an important argument regarding the necessity to promote staff education for mastering digital tools.
Rosner, M. H., Lew, S. Q., Conway, P., Ehrlich, J., Jarrin, R., Patel, U. D.,…Brophy, P. (2017). Perspectives from the kidney health initiative on advancing technologies to facilitate remote monitoring of patient self-care in RRT. Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology, 12(11), 1900-1909.
Paying close attention to the innovative solutions produced in the healthcare context is instrumental to the successful treatment of patients and the management of public health concerns. The article by Rosner et al. (2017), who are affiliated with trustworthy higher educational institutions, incentivizes nurses to use tools for remote monitoring of patients with kidney disease as the means of encouraging their agency while providing them with sufficient healthcare assistance. The strength of the article lies in its endeavor to examine the problem in the multidisciplinary context, thus embracing every factor that may possibly affect patients’ health status. In addition, the multiple types of digital health management tools incorporated into the study make it comprehensive and thorough. Still, the limitations implied by the scale of the research, namely, the fact that it is placed in a very specific setting, mean that the usefulness of the specified technology for other areas is yet to be established. The paper can be used to point to the possible use of various digital technology in a nursing setting, thus proving the urgency of digital education for nurses.
Scantlebury, A., Booth, A., & Hanley, B. (2017). Experiences, practices and barriers to accessing health information: A qualitative study. International Journal of Medical Informatics, 103, 103-108. Web.
The article examines the available digital sources of knowledge for healthcare experts and patients alike, paying particular attention to the Internet as the primary one. Being members of the Department of Health Sciences, the researchers represent a rather authoritative opinion on the subject matter. Scantlebury et al. (2017) explain that the lack of access to full scholarly articles is the major problem of the Internet and a massive barrier to health education for patients. The meticulous assessment of the obstacles that patients and nurses have when seeking data is the min strength of the article. However, its primary weakness, namely, the choice of the participants, who mostly represented the North of England, could have been not quite representative of the general population. Nevertheless, the paper has provided substantial information for exploring the advantages and limitations of digital information sources as a means of increasing patient literacy and nurses’ knowledgeability.