Swedish District Nurses’ Attitudes to Implement Information and Communication Technology in Home Nursing
The use of information and communication technology has increased in the society, and can be useful in nursing care. The aim of this study was to describe district nurses’ attitudes regarding the implementation of information and communication technology in home nursing. The first and third authors...
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ftpubmed:oai:pubmedcentral.nih.gov:2600856 2023-05-15T17:44:48+02:00 Swedish District Nurses’ Attitudes to Implement Information and Communication Technology in Home Nursing Nilsson, Carina Skär, Lisa Söderberg, Siv 2008-11-21 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2600856 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19319223 https://doi.org/10.2174/1874434600802010068 en eng Bentham Open http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2600856 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19319223 http://dx.doi.org/10.2174/1874434600802010068 © Nilsson et al.; Licensee Bentham Open. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ This is an open access article licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/), which permits unrestricted, non-commercial use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the work is properly cited. CC-BY-NC Article Text 2008 ftpubmed https://doi.org/10.2174/1874434600802010068 2013-09-02T08:42:33Z The use of information and communication technology has increased in the society, and can be useful in nursing care. The aim of this study was to describe district nurses’ attitudes regarding the implementation of information and communication technology in home nursing. The first and third authors performed five focus group discussions with 19 district nurses’ from five primary healthcare centres in northern Sweden. During the focus group discussions, the following topics were discussed: the current and future use of information and communication technology in home nursing; expectations, advantages, disadvantages and hindrances in the use of information and communication technology in home nursing; and the use of information and communication technology from an ethical perspective. The transcribed focus group discussions were analysed using qualitative content analysis. The results showed that district nurses’ attitudes were positive regarding the use of information and communication technology in their work. They also asked for possibilities to influence the design and its introduction. However, the use of information and communication technology in home nursing can be described as a complement to communication that could not replace human physical encounters. Improvements and risks, as well as the importance of physical presence in home nursing were considered vital. The results revealed that the use of information and communication technology requires changes in the district nurses’ work situation. Text Northern Sweden PubMed Central (PMC) The Open Nursing Journal 2 68 72 |
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The use of information and communication technology has increased in the society, and can be useful in nursing care. The aim of this study was to describe district nurses’ attitudes regarding the implementation of information and communication technology in home nursing. The first and third authors performed five focus group discussions with 19 district nurses’ from five primary healthcare centres in northern Sweden. During the focus group discussions, the following topics were discussed: the current and future use of information and communication technology in home nursing; expectations, advantages, disadvantages and hindrances in the use of information and communication technology in home nursing; and the use of information and communication technology from an ethical perspective. The transcribed focus group discussions were analysed using qualitative content analysis. The results showed that district nurses’ attitudes were positive regarding the use of information and communication technology in their work. They also asked for possibilities to influence the design and its introduction. However, the use of information and communication technology in home nursing can be described as a complement to communication that could not replace human physical encounters. Improvements and risks, as well as the importance of physical presence in home nursing were considered vital. The results revealed that the use of information and communication technology requires changes in the district nurses’ work situation. |
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