Locsin, Kuan, Abaquin

– Technological Competency as Caring in Nursing

ROZZANO LOCSIN

The only filipino theorist featured in the books of Martha Alligood

ROZZANO LOCSIN

DIMENSIONS IN TECHNOLOGICAL VALUE IN THEORY:
to re-formulate the ideal human being such as in replacement parts, both mechanical (prostheses) or organic (transplantation of organs).

Technology as completing human beings

DIMENSIONS IN TECHNOLOGICAL VALUE IN THEORY:
, e.g. computers and gadgets enhancing nursing activities to provide quality patient care.

Technology as machine technologies

DIMENSIONS IN TECHNOLOGICAL VALUE IN THEORY:
to meet the demands of nursing care practices, e.g. cyborgs (cybernetic organisms) or anthropomorphic machines and robots such as ‘nursebots’ (Locsin & Barnard, 2007).

Technologies that mimic human beings and human activities

Technological Competency as Caring in Nursing:
is the harmonious coexistence between technologies and caring in nursing.

1. Technological competency as caring in nursing

Technological Competency as Caring in Nursing:
2. The harmonization of these concepts places the practice of nursing within the context of _ and acknowledges that these concepts can co-exist.

modern healthcare

Technological Competency as Caring in Nursing:
3. brings the patient closer to the nurse. Conversely, it can also increase the gap between the nurse and nursed.

Technology

Technological Competency as Caring in Nursing:
4. When technology is used to know persons continuously in the moment, the process of nursing is _.

lived

A Model for Practice provides insight and answers into how nurses can express their nursing by being technologically competent.

Technological Competency as Caring in Nursing:

● Locsin sustains the understanding that being _ is being caring.

technologically competent

THE PROCESS OF NURSING

A. Knowing
B. Designing
C. Participation in Appreciation
D. Verifying Knowledge

THE PROCESS OF NURSING:
The process of _ person is guided by technological _ in which persons are appreciated as participants in their care rather than as objects of care. The nurse enters the world of the other. In this process, technology is used to magnify the aspect of the person that requires revealing – a representation of the real person. The person's state changes moment to moment – person is dynamic, living, and cannot be predicted.

A. Knowing

THE PROCESS OF NURSING:
Both the nurse and the one nursed (patient) participate in the process from which the nurse can organize a rewarding nursing practice that is responsive to the patient’s desire for care.

B. Designing

THE PROCESS OF NURSING:
The simultaneous practice of conjoined activities which are crucial to knowing persons. In this stage of the process is the alternating rhythm of implementation and evaluation. The evidence of continuous knowing, implementation and participation is reflective of the cyclical process of knowing persons.

C. Participation in Appreciation

THE PROCESS OF NURSING:
The continuous, circular process demonstrates the ever-changing, dynamic nature of knowing in nursing. Knowledge about the person that is derived from knowing, designing, and implementing further informs the nurse and the one nursed.

D. Verifying Knowledge

● The need is critical for nurses to further realize the significance of being human in intense technological environments and to enter into the sphere of influence of the theory of Technological Competency as Caring in Nursing (Locsin, 2005).

CONCLUSION OF PAPER PRESENTED BY LOCSIN

“Retirement and Role Discontinuities”

SISTER LETTY KUAN

Physiological age, role, change of life, retiree, role discontinuity, coping approaches

Sister Letty Kuan “RETIREMENT AND ROLE DISCONTINUITIES”

Determinants of Positive Perception in Preparation for the Inevitable Retirement

1. Physiological and mental state of respondents
2. Financial status
3. Employment status
4. Close-knit or extended family
5. Getting oneself ready for possible outcomes in life

Determinants of Positive Perception in Preparation for the Inevitable Retirement: (sickly or healthy)

1. Physiological and mental state of respondents

Determinants of Positive Perception in Preparation for the Inevitable Retirement: (poor, moderate or rich)

2. Financial status

Determinants of Positive Perception in Preparation for the Inevitable Retirement: defines the legal and contractual relationship between a worker and an organization

3. Employment status

Determinants of Positive Perception in Preparation for the Inevitable Retirement: (three or more generations live in one roof, nuclear type (husband, wife and children))

4. Close-knit or extended family

Determinants of Positive Perception in Preparation for the Inevitable Retirement: invest not in monetary benefits but in something that gives dignity, enhance feeling of self-worth. Not only professionalism and expertise but also includes charitable action.

5. Getting oneself ready for possible outcomes in life

PREPARE ME Interventions

CARMENCITA M. ABAQUIN

Holistic Nursing Interventions

PREPARE ME Interventions by CARMENCITA M. ABAQUIN

● Address the Multidimensional problems of cancer patients and their families

PREPARE ME Interventions by CARMENCITA M. ABAQUIN

● Can be given in any setting where patients choose to be confined

PREPARE ME Interventions by CARMENCITA M. ABAQUIN

5 PREPARE ME

1. Presence and Prayer
2. Reminisce Therapy
3. Relaxation Breathing
4. Meditation
5. Values Clarification

5 PREPARE ME:
– which includes therapeutic communication, active listening, and touch. Being with the person in times of need.

1. Presence and Prayer

5 PREPARE ME:
– recall past experiences, feelings and thoughts to help adaptation to present situation.

2. Reminisce Therapy

5 PREPARE ME:
– technique to encourage to elicit relaxation and decrease undesirable signs and symptoms such as pain, muscle tension and anxiety.

3. Relaxation-Breathing

5 PREPARE ME:
– Patient's level of awareness focusing on an image or thought which helps establish relationship with God. Maybe done with the use of music and other relaxation techniques.

4. Meditation

5 PREPARE ME:
– assist patient to clarify values about health and illness in order to facilitate effective decision-making skills. Facilitates an open mind for patient in acceptance of disease state.

5. Values Clarification

– Reduction of uncomfortable or undesirable symptoms experienced by the patient.

Symptom Relief

– The person receiving nursing care and experiencing the illness or health condition.

Patient

– The nursing actions or strategies provided to help address the patient’s needs and problems.

Intervention

– The patient’s overall physical, emotional, social, and spiritual well-being and how they perceive their life while dealing with illness.

Quality of Life

– The focus of the nursing intervention, whose needs, comfort, and well-being are prioritized.

Patient