Nursing has evolved through time and the care nurses provide must tailor itself to these changes. Today we live in a world where new technologies are used everywhere. Nurses must stay rooted in human caring while adapting to these advancements. Nursing must not move to be merely a technical practice. Locsin’s theory of Technological Competency as Caring in Nursing works to frame the relationship between nursing care and the use of technology.
Summary
Known as a contemporary theorist, Locsin’s perspective of caring and understanding human beings relates to the simultaneity paradigm. According to this paradigm people are believed to be more than just the sum of their parts. People are considered whole at all times, regardless of being sick, or if technologies are utilized on them. The role of nursing is not to fix the broken patient or make them whole but to care and know the patient fully. He sees technology as an extension of caring that enables a greater sense of knowing. The idea of knowing is a central idea throughout Locsin’s work. Knowing is a mutual process between the nurse and those being nursed. They must come together and know each other in order to have mutual knowing and acceptance (Locsin, The Culture of Technology: Defining Transformation in Nursing, from "The Lady with a Lamp" to "Robonurse"?, 2001).
The person being nursed is thought to be unique and necessitates creative and imaginative ways of being cared for. Today’s technologies have created innovative ways to care for such people. Locsin does not define a human being as being purely natural, but references those who have implanted devices such as cardiac pacemakers, insulin pumps and artificial limbs as also being whole (Locsin R. , 2010). ...
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...connect to their patients who may not be within hands reach. Is it possible to be completely knowing of one another via televisions or computer screens? I hope Locsin’s theory will be used as frameworks of study in the future.
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