Gina Dimaapi Panganiban
Dean of the College of Nursing , Bulacan State University, Philippines
Title: Quality nursing care delivery through technological advancements
Biography
Biography: Gina Dimaapi Panganiban
Abstract
Modernization is a drive towards fast-paced living that entails the utilization of all possible resources in an extraordinary rapid manner. Undoubtedly, technology has reigned over several aspects of human existence. It has made life easier especially considering the feats nowadays. Of these myriad facets, one commonly touched wherein extensive range has been influenced is nursing-a healthcare profession focused on the care of individuals, families and communities to attain, maintain or recover optimal health and quality life from conception to death. As a profession, nursing is a practice based upon a social contract that delineates professional rights and responsibilities as well as mechanisms for public accountability. The swiftness of nurses’ role in patient care has progressed and so has their role in the use of technology to improve health care delivery and is termed as “Nursing Informatics”. The discipline of health informatics applies information technology to the skills and work of nurses in healthcare. It integrates the science of nursing, computer technology and information science to enhance the quality of the nursing practice through improved communication, documentation and efficiency Ball. However, given all these perspectives, technological advancement also posed detrimental threat not only in nursing profession but also, in the whole of the healthcare system which include but not limited to the provision of quality patient care taking into consideration that technological capacity of healthcare professionals are limited. In support of this, Bell, et al. (2008) affirms that the status quo of nursing curriculum in the country mainly revolves in resolving family and community health-oriented issues and had neglected the true and correct role of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in the healthcare system. Through these, technological advancement is proposed to commence in Bulacan State University in the conduct of an intensive review of the existing nursing curriculum, scholastic facility available used in the transfer of theoretical understanding and skills against international standards, technological know-how of faculty handling nursing informatics, theoretical know how and competence on nursing concepts of faculty with nursing informatics and based on the findings, appropriate programs, curricular design and facility development will be proposed.