Question

What types of resistance to new technologies might be evident among patients, caregivers, and nurses? What evidence and strategies might help to diminish these resistances?

Answer 1

Telehealth care is widely using newer technology now a days throughout the world.

Though it has lot of uses but the same amount of hurdles there.

The main four hurdles are;

1. poor technology design that does not adhere to human factors and ergonomic principles

2. poor technology interface with the patient or environment

3. inadequate plan for implementing a new technology into practice, and

4. inadequate maintenance plan.

Patient care technology has become increasingly complex, transforming the way nursing care is conceptualized and delivered. Before extensive application of technology, nurses relied heavily on their senses of sight, touch, smell, and hearing to monitor patient status and to detect changes. Over time, the nurses’ unaided senses were replaced with technology designed to detect physical changes in patient conditions. Consider the case of pulse oxymetry. Before its widespread use, nurses relied on subtle changes in mental status and skin color to detect early changes in oxygen saturation, and they used arterial blood gasses to confirm their suspicions. Now pulse oxymetry allows nurses to identify decreased oxygenation before clinical symptoms appear, and thus more promptly diagnose and treat underlying causes.