NURS FPX4040 Assessment 3 Evidence-Based Proposal and Annotated Bibliography on Technology in Nursing
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Assessment 3: Evidence-Based Proposal and Annotated Bibliography on Technology in Nursing
Student Name
NURS-FPX4040: Managing Health Info & Tech
Capella University
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Month Date, Year
Impact of Selected Technology on Patient Care
Measuring the saturation of oxygen is done by physicians with the help of a technology known as Pulse oximetry. This is a vital innovative invention of the scientists which has played a pivotal role in helping professionals conduct their duties well and ensure patients’ wellbeing and care and safety-enhancement. It helps professionals to detect the low levels of oxygen saturation. The technology is widely used in the United States, Canada, and Europe to help doctors and anaesthesia experts to conduct their duties during emergencies and operations. This is a comprehensive innovated bibliography that aims to discuss the benefits and pros of using Pulse oximetry in medical and healthcare settings and what are the implications of this technology on safety and wellbeing of patients and organizations.
McGrath, S. P., Perreard, I. M., Garland, M. D., Converse, K. A., & Mackenzie, T. A. (2018). Improving patient safety and clinician workflow in the general care setting with enhanced surveillance monitoring. IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics, 23(2), 857-866.
These scholarly resources published in 2018 is important to include because it discusses the impact of the proposed technology on patient safety and quality of care. It also discusses how interdisciplinary teams can benefit from Pulse oximetry and what are the potential implications of incorporating this innovation in healthcare organizations. The authors claim that improving patient safety and clinicians work is easier to achieve through this technology in healthcare settings. It also provides help for enhance surveillance and monitoring of patients who have oxygen levels below the required standards. Since a large number of elderly patients and adults in emergency wards are admitted due to breathing and oxygen issues, the pulse Oximeter helps healthcare professionals to measure oxygen levels in blood seamlessly and help the decide the discharge date of patients easily. Moreover, the study states that paediatrics also utilizes this technology significantly and frequently when they have to perform tasks such as measuring pulses paradoxes.
There is no proof that pulse Oximeters can be 100% accurate in providing oxygen level results, however, the widespread use of this innovative technology has surely benefitted the work and procedure of healthcare professionals in several settings and allowed them to reduce stress. Moreover, when f venous pulsations are observed, the instrument often gives low readings and it also might not be able to detect t hypoxemia however, the overall use of this technology is beneficial and recommended because it allows physicians to measure f arterial oxygen saturation and oxygen levels in blood conveniently.
Tuti, T., Aluvaala, J., Akech, S., Agweyu, A., Irimu, G., & English, M. (2021). Pulse oximetry adoption and oxygen orders at paediatric admission over 7 years in Kenya: a multihospital retrospective cohort study. BMJ open, 11(9), e050995.
This article or scholarly resources discusses the organizational factors influencing the selection of this technology in healthcare settings. In many low- and middle-income countries, this technology is used specially to help professionals make their processes easy and seamless to benefit patients. The study states that there are specific clinical and patient factors that can influence the use of this technology in hospitals. The article highlights useful considerations for organization which are working to enhance the use and benefits of pulse oximeter and helping patients to discover their oxygen levels with accuracy. This is a multihospital study that selects 18 hospitals in 2020 to explore the factors related to the use of the selected instrument in these hospitals. The authors conclude that the use of pulse oximetry has been recommended in the international guidelines for assessing children’s oxygen levels that are slow to grow and face several illnesses. Many situational and clinical factors determine the use and benefit of this technology in hospitals because organizations often lack long-term vision and a goal to effectively use the instruments. The authors suggest that middle- and low-income countries have a large and significant number of patients who suffers from respiratory and cardiovascular diseases. These hospitals are suffering from re-admission rates that are increasing in Kenya and other African countries.
Young infants are having infections that must be cured due to the use of these innovative technologies in such healthcare organizations. The article discusses the factors organization considers to bring the exact results for patient wellbeing. For example, selecting this technology can require financial planning and investment. The monitoring of oxygen in all countries has been observed to be clear and precise, if not totally accurate. It is recommended that the technology must be used for helping patients with cough and fever. Therefore, a vital factor is the transfer rate of patients to intensive care unit (ICU) from surgical wards is another factor that impacts the use of this technology. This resource is valuable addition because it advocates the use of pulse oximeter in monitoring patients based on their surgical needs. Physicians can judge the condition of patient and use it as a factor to transfer them to ICUs. Moreover, the treatment cost is also a factor that hospitals must consider which may be around $15,481 or more for one oximeter group. Therefore, for anaesthesia specialists, the use of pulse oximeter is of greater value and benefit to the patient health safety and security.
Narayen, I. C. et al. (2016). Aspects of pulse oximetry screening for critical congenital heart defects: When, how and why? Archives of Disease in Childhood – Fetal and Neonatal Edition, 101(2), F162–F167. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/archdischild-2015-309205
This is another insightful resource that discusses the benefits of implementing the Pulse oximetry healthcare technology in a healthcare setting or a hospital or a nursing home. The study provides a well-designed and structured analysis of the potential positive impact of using this technology in healthcare settings for doctors and nurses; the study concludes that patient safety and confidentiality is improved using this technology. This article is also a great selection because it aims to measure why this instrument is becoming popular globally in healthcare organizations to measure f critical congenital heart defects (CCHD). The authors suggest that using pulse oximeter is highly recommended due to measuring CCHD.
Moreover, another benefit of this technology is that it is also useful for pathologists and keeps good tracks of the CCHD. Therefore, as a result, the United States Secretary of Health of Human Services also suggests using this instrument for uniform screening panel. As the result of the analysis of pulse oximeter is almost 99%, in pre- and post-ducal procedures of measurement, the difference in readings is negligible. Hence, we can conclude from the light of this resource that this technology helps doctors in operations and improving the oxygen levels of patients that is vital for having better patient care outcomes in terms of safety.
McGrath, S. P., Perreard, I. M., Garland, M. D., Converse, K. A., & Mackenzie, T. A. (2018). Improving patient safety and clinician workflow in the general care setting with enhanced surveillance monitoring. IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics, 23(2), 857-866.
This is another vital resource that provides evidence-based and well-argued statements to get insights related to benefits of pulse oximetry and it work in hospitals. The study states that system level design and analysis can be applied in this domain to measure patient deterioration. Pulse Oximetry is a great surveillance system that provides a comprehensive display to improve and redesign nursing workflows and patient safeties. A survey was conducted by the researchers to measure the staff and nurses’ satisfaction regarding the use of this technology, that statistical analysis showed that the key clinical elements are improved using this technology. The data collection time related to patient care and vital signs was improved by 28% using these instruments. Patient monitoring time was also reduced by 1.22% that helped doctors and nurses to improve the accuracy of patients’ data in the hospital settings. Therefore, this technology quickly helps professionals to measure an abrupt drop of oxygen and SpO2 levels in patients with anaesthesia and also in intensive care units.
References
McGrath, S. P., Perreard, I. M., Garland, M. D., Converse, K. A., & Mackenzie, T. A. (2018). Improving patient safety and clinician workflow in the general care setting with enhanced surveillance monitoring. IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics, 23(2), 857-866.
McGrath, S. P., Perreard, I. M., Garland, M. D., Converse, K. A., & Mackenzie, T. A. (2018). Improving patient safety and clinician workflow in the general care setting with enhanced surveillance monitoring. IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics, 23(2), 857-866.
Narayen, I. C. et al. (2016). Aspects of pulse oximetry screening for critical congenital heart defects: When, how and why? Archives of Disease in Childhood – Fetal and Neonatal Edition, 101(2), F162–F167. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/archdischild-2015-309205
Tuti, T., Aluvaala, J., Akech, S., Agweyu, A., Irimu, G., & English, M. (2021). Pulse oximetry adoption and oxygen orders at paediatric admission over 7 years in Kenya: a multihospital retrospective cohort study. BMJ open, 11(9), e050995.