Nursing is a noble profession centered on the human caring, a phenomenon that is highly agitated for by the caring theory. In the appreciation of this call and demand, a significant amount of leadership in the field of nursing is concerned with the high rate, at which the technology is integrated into the process of availing the services at the centers of nursing, particularly the caring aspect of it. The worry is that the discipline risks losing its fundamental role, that of availing the human touch in the healing process. The agitation is that there is the need to strike a balance between the integration of technology and the human contact between the nurse and the patients. In staying faithful to this call, this paper aims at providing insights on how well the computer technology can be integrated into the field of nursing without risking the loss of human caring in the healing process.
Literature Review
It is evident that the general take in the field of medicine is that technology has come in to minimize the element of human error in the delivery of health care services. Technology is viewed as an aid that should work in a complementary manner to the human effort. However, some reservation still exists on how the application of technology has enhanced health care delivery with some analysts arguing that it presents both the solution and the problem to the nursing field. On the positive side, the integration of technology has led to an improved accuracy level in term of precision when it comes to a diagnosis. With just a click of a button, it is now possible to analyze the patients and identify the area that needs medical attention. The timeliness of health care delivery has also been improved through quick analysis aided by the use of technology. On the other hand, the same technology has reduced the nurses to mere puppets who take a more passive role in health care delivery.
Nurses are now more reliant on the feedback given by the computers after they have analyzed the situation at hand via the commands given. This is a phenomenon that some people are not comfortable with. In some instances, medical errors are caused as the result of the nurses relying more on the feedback given by the computers rather than their instinct based on their training. Sometimes, machines may suffer an internal breakdown and deliver incorrect data, and if acted upon without counter-checking with human observation, a medical error becomes eminent. Moreover, the founders of literature in the field of nursing intentionally demonstrate that nursing is centered on the humanistic approach where a nurse provides the needed services in a caring way, a trait that can only be availed by a human to another human being. This is the reason why researchers call for the right balance between the integration of computer technology and the human competent in nursing care. It is the assertion that the introduction of computer technology in the field of nursing care has been highly fueled by the need to enhance accuracy, but the intention now seems target the elimination of human input. This phenomenon makes nursing lose its active role when it comes to availing the different relevant help in the healing process.
There is a general agreement among the researchers that computer technology is and will remain a critical component in nursing in the line of minimizing human error and improving the efficiency of nursing care. However, there is a p