Integrating Technology into Nursing practice: The Impact on patient Monitoring and care Delivery

Abstract

Introduction: Technology has found its way into the nursing practice and the practice has been made easier for the monitoring and the delivery of patients. With the problems experienced across healthcare facilities globally in terms of an increasing number of patients and increasing cost pressure while patients expect better results this planet’s technology is therefore a key enabler for delivering care.
Aim of work: To examine the integration of technology into nursing practice and its impact on patient monitoring and care delivery.
Methods: We conducted a comprehensive search in the MEDLINE database's electronic literature using the following search terms: Integration, Technology, Nursing, practice, Impact, patient Monitoring and care Delivery. The search was restricted to publications from 2016 to 2024 in order to locate relevant content. We performed a search on Google Scholar to locate and examine academic papers that pertain to my subject matter. The selection of articles was impacted by certain criteria for inclusion.
Results: The publications analyzed in this study encompassed from 2016 to 2024. The study was structured into various sections with specific headings in the discussion section.

Conclusion: The integration of technology in the nursing practice has enhanced patient assessment and care documentation with enhanced accurate care solutions in the system. Telehealth solutions, RFID, home/remote monitoring devices, expert system, telecare, and other sophisticated tools have enabled nurses to serve patients satisfactorily even in different context. While embracing the use of technology in completion of nursing tasks, the responsibility that comes with the delivery of nursing care cannot allow technology takeover of nursing. By doing so, specific issues, including data security, disparities in access to health information technologies and the implications for the nurse-patient relationship, can be effectively managed so that the use of technology enhances, rather than detracts from the nature of nursing practice. From there, the focus should remain on how technology can be best employed in the context of patient education, in assisting and supporting the nurses, and in serving the interests of everyone in terms of what technology makes accessible to them throughout the healthcare spectrum. The future of nursing includes the appropriate combination of the technological advance in surgeries, diagnostics, therapies, technical support, enhanced patient care and the empathy that has characterized its practice all along.