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Grace Lindsay
Umm Al Qura University, KSA
Posters & Accepted Abstracts: J Blood Disord Treat
As nursing continues to develop its professional identity, the ability to contribute to new knowledge through nurse-informed research, remains a high priority. Many areas of nursing practice and patient care are transformed through use of digital technology devices and support systems. These systems provide new and exciting opportunities to efficiently and effectively conduct research activity within practice and community setting, with ‘real-time’ data collection and analysis a reality.
In this presentation some of the underlying concepts and capabilities of digital technology that relate directly to nursing research will be reviewed. The electronic health record provides a digital ‘data footprint’ characterizing all individuals. Thereafter, there are a wide range of devices and applications. Examples include automation and robotics in healthcare practice for monitoring, pattern recognition, early warning signs; delivery of basic healthcare interventions; and prototypes that capture and interpret interactive processes such as communication within operating room practices. In addition, harnessing ‘Smart phone’ capabilities can be applied to self-monitoring, diagnosis, alerts, bio-feedback and data storage to promote greater client involvement in healthcare and offer the ability to capture a wide range of real-life data related to healthcare behaviours and/or interventions and provide an accurate picture of the ‘lived experience’.
The digital system advancements reduce significant barriers to research engagement frequently reported by nursing professionals, in domains of data measurement, collection and analysis. This presentation concludes with some insights into future directions of digitalization and its impact on nursing and patient care into the realms of artificial intelligence and robotics.
E-mail: gracemlindsay@gmail.com
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