Locsin’s Technological Nursing as Caring Model

Rozzano Locsin

• Born in 1954
• Native of Dumaguete City
• Filipino American Professor of Nursing at Tokushima University
• Professor Emeritus at Florida Atlantic Univeristy Visiting Professor at universities in Thailand, Uganda, and the Philippines.
• Known for the middle-range theory of “Technological Competency as Caring in Nursing”

Education

• Bachelor of Science in Nursing, 1976 - Siliman University
• Masters in Nursing, 1978
• PhD in Nursing, 1988 - University of the Philippines

Career

• American Academy of Nursing
• Philippine American Academy of Science and Nursing
• Published six books and numerous journals and articles relevant to nursing practice and research

Technological Nursing Competency as Caring

• Middle-range theory
• Skilled demonstration of intentional, deliberate, and authentic activities by experienced nurses who practice in environments requiring tech
• Balance patient care and technology

The Process of Nursing

A. Knowing

• Process of knowing a person is guided by technological knowing in which persons are appreciated as participants in their care rather than as objects of care.

B. Designing

• Both the nurse and the patient plan a mutual care process from which the nurse can organize a rewarding nursing practice that is resonsive to the patient’s desire for care.

C. Participation in Appreciation

• The simultaneous practice of conjoined activities which are crucial to know persons. In this stage of the process is the alternating rhythm of implementation and evaluation.

D. Verifying Knowledge

• Knowledge about the person that is derived from knowing, designing, and implementing further informs the nurses.

Metaparadigm

Person

• Recipient of nursing care

Environment

• Internal and external surroundings that affect the client

Health

• Degree of wellness or well-being that the client experiences.

Nursing

• The nurse's attributes, characteristics, and actions provide care on behalf of or in conjunction with the client.

Theory in Practice

• Using technology is the only way to know the person as a whole.
• Understand data is only current at the moment invasive lines focus on the person at the moment to individualize care.
• Vital signs using technologies in practice is one way to know person as a whole.
• Understanding the data obtained is only current at the moment and will change because people are constantly changing.
• Invasive lines help monitor small changes that could become detrimental to a person’s health, shows improvement to a person’s health, and helps in proving appropriate therapy.