Write a reflection journal (250-300 words) to outline what has been discovered about your professional practice, personal strengths and/or weaknesses, and additional resources that could be introduced in a given situation to influence optimal outcomes. Each week there will be a specific focus to use in your reflection. Integrate leadership and inquiry into the current practice. Please make sure to address all areas in your writing.
Technology advancement helps nurses to perform their tasks and practice patient care effectively and efficiently. Currently, the nursing sector is better than in the past three decades. There have been technological advancements such as robot-assisted surgery which in future may replace surgeons, humanoid nursing robots and companion robots which provide social services to patients who have special needs such as autism. Additionally, there is the development of new artificial intelligence that helps machines to make critical decisions and improve patient care coordination (Okpala, 2018). The hospital is continuing to embrace the use of common medical devices such as infusion pumps that help in delivering fluids such as nutrients, thus, helping in controlling service delivery as it delivers the fluid in precisely programmed intervals. Most of these infusion pumps are fortified with programmed clinical guidelines and drug libraries that have a detailed list of drugs for prescribed doses. The smart pumps are designed in a way that they can help in evaluating programming errors, thus, notifying the nurses when there is an exposure to an adverse drug interaction. When the doctors are administering specified drugs, the smart pumps generated alerts are the hard stops and clinical warnings (Holzinger et al., 2019). Clinical alerts provide data about drugs within the administering facility’s drug library that includes instructions for actual administration which are forfeited into the pump by the big organization.
Moreover, mobile health clinics are vital innovative health care delivery models that help in alleviating health separates in vulnerable populations and patients with chronic diseases. Mobile health clinics help in providing urgent care and also in introducing chronic disease management (Malone et al., 2020). The opening of mobile health clinics helps patients to get personalized and cheap healthcare that enthusiastically responds to changing social needs. The epidemiological program created by the medical health map aid in providing ways in which nurses can monitor the health characteristics of underserved populations. The medical health map supports the clinics to incognito share aggregated demographic data that concerns the population that they serve and the different services that they provide.
References
Holzinger, A., Langs, G., Denk, H., Zatloukal, K., & Müller, H. (2019). Causability and explainability of artificial intelligence in medicine. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, 9(4), e1312.
Malone, N. C., Williams, M. M., Smith Fawzi, M. C., Bennet, J., Hill, C., Katz, J. N., & Oriol, N. E. (2020). Mobile health clinics in the United States. International journal for equity in health, 19(1), 1-9.
Okpala, P. (2018). Assessment of the influence of technology on the cost of healthcare service and patient’s satisfaction. International Journal of Healthcare Management, 11(4), 351-355.
